Glorious Day for Prospecting

I woke to a foggy day that said, "just wait, I'll be clear blue in no time." So, up and at it... Yesterday was my 64th b'day... yikes.....I can't really be 64!!! I'm too young for those numbers...so today I set off to prove it by going prospecting for gold... well, gold, green, pink and blue....glass. I'd found a little stash below a broken window at the derelict church that I often explore so decided to return to see if there was more...maybe inside?? Flan and I set off on our favourite route toward Battlebridge. It was a perfect morning...sun, warm, quiet, peaceful... We went immediately to the place under the window that we'd found bits before.... I started to scrape away a bit more leaf debris...found a few pieces... Puppy was eager to help...terriers are diggers and she's no slouch at it. Then I scraped along the window sill and found a few more pieces, but not enough. I still wasn't convinced that the glass wasn't broken from the outside and thus fell mainly into the interior. So we found a board to cross through the collapsed entry and came into the interior....open to the sky and the glory of God in the beautiful blue sky. Since it was early morning, the light was amazing... Flan immediately set off to explore every corner of the place while I worked my way to the window.
Slow going over all the downed beams, ferns, stickers, open crypts, etc. After a bit of digging I decided that if there were glass bits under the ferns, mud, and bits of sluffed off plaster, I wasn't going to get to them easily. I decided to go back outside.... We both worked our ways around the tumbled wreckage and then headed back out. I decided to dig a bit deeper under the broken window and, eureka, about 4inches under dirt, plaster, leaves, roots, I came to the mother lode. Lead, glass, the works. Most is green, some amber, a little pink and a tiny bit of blue. In the only remaining intact piece still in the window I can see that blue was the outline so not much remains. I'd love to know what it looked like in the days of worship. It was fun to dig with Flan...she kept attacking my gloves, growling, tugging...oh such a help!! At one point she had a bit of both gloves in her mouth and I was stuck!! She just loves it.

We then took off to see what the canal looked like...still frozen. This is Battlebridge, the same one I put photos on in October...what a difference!!

Photos: Church, windows, inside, etc.
Frozen canal at Battle bridge
Glass