Sun and sand

This little perfume bottle stopper is a pale mauve color. It reminds me of what Mama used to do when we lived on the mountain. She'd take empty fruit jars or jelly glasses, lay them on the sand in the sunshine, and they would turn mauve or pink. The longer they stayed in the sun, the deeper the color would be.

Sun and sand remind me of this, not of the beach. The only good memory I have of a beach is watching the little brown pelicans in St. Petersburg, FL, and it was cloudy that day I went.