Taking rocks from beach for painting.

There is a group of us who belong to a group on face book where we paint rocks with pictures or inspirational sayings, hide them, and ask finders to keep or rehide but please post them on our website. We try to find places to hide where they might make someone’s day, hospitals, churches, nursing homes, beaches. You’d be surprised how people respond. I had a couple find one of my rocks at Hampton beach who had just moved here from NY and having second thoughts about the move. Finding that rock was a good omen to them that NH was a welcoming place to live. When children find them they get so excited. Anyway, some of us who live here get our rocks to paint from the beach. I’m rather surprised at the # of people who tell us we are breaking the law. Keep in mind we don’t take them from or near the sea wall. We only take a handful, it’s not like we’re loading pickup trucks. Last year I had a lady scold me at Place Cove for filling my bathing suit with a couple of rocks. A place where storms pushed so many rocks to the beach you can’t walk the beach or enter the water.

Well some of us have quit the group rather than be accused of breaking the law. I just wish people would use common sense. Does the fact that a few are offended justify ending a worthy hobby that made people happy? I’m getting tired of the minority ruining it for the majority.