Saturday Critters ~ 178 ~

Sometimes, a good picture comes from the most unexpected place.

A detour, a back road, a body of water where you did not know there was one.

Sadly, this detour was because of a house fire, the road was closed and we took the detour...

And there it was, a marshy body of water and the hubs spotted an egret.

We spun the car around and the egret was immediately on guard.

He tried to hide and after a few clicks, he took off...

I couldn't get a flight shot!!
I didn't think these images would be any good but I ended up loving them.
I thought the grass added some real interest to the pictures.

I will add this spot to my list of spots to visit - if I want to see an egret.

Sharing today's images with 

Eileen at Viewing Nature With Eileen and 
Anni at I'd Rather Be Birdin 

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Reinventing a Coffee Table

I collect Sea Glass

I display it on my Sea Glass shelf in the kitchen and around the house in jars.

This shelf is open to our family room.

The items displayed on this shelf can be seen from both the kitchen

and the family room.

I also have some dishes on display with a few of my favorite pieces.

Displaying the glass in jars is nice but spreading it out is so much prettier.

And that got us me thinking...

I have a glass topped coffee table in my family room,

if we the hubs, could put another piece of glass under it

the sea glass could be displayed spread out in-between the two pieces of glass...

and that would look a whole lot better.

The hubs was on board, he formed a plan and ordered the glass...

There was a trip to Home Depot 

(that I did not attend) for brackets and screws and we were set for lift off.

We patiently waited for the glass...not!!

This is how the table looked before we started.
It has a glass top and a thick, chunky base.

We took the top piece of glass off, which was easy as it just lays in the lip.

The hubs installed 6 brackets an inch or so lower to hold the bottom/lower piece of glass.
This ended up being pretty easy as the table has a very think design.

Once the bottom piece of glass was on, 
we spread out all of the sea glass...

I have a lot, this is not all of it...

We put the top piece of glass back on...
and easy peasy, it looks like this.
The sea glass looks so much prettier, spread out and displayed like this!

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