Culleenamore - Three Shells

This is the spot where I found the three most beautiful small round shells - one red, one green, and one yellow. The circles on the shells reminded me of the celtic swirls you see everywhere.

I brought the three shells home with me. Never had I seen such amazingly lovely shells. But what I learned the next morning was they were alive - overnight they moved from the prayer mat where I had placed them to various spots in the living room. I was startled when I woke up and went into the living room to see the empty space on the prayer mat. For several minutes I searched high and low across the floor, on the chairs, and in between books before finding the yellow shell.

Gently and carefully, I put all three of them in a little sack and carried them back to the very spot where I found them. What I noticed this time in this little section of the strand was that there were many other shells just as beautiful - but only in this little spot.

I laid the three shells out on the sand up against beach vegation. It was then I saw their little bodies move out from under the shells - they were still alive. The world was made right again.

View of the Ox Mountains from Cullenamore