I collected and stored in jars

Selina GuinnesThe Crocodile by the Door, The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family, Dublin, Penguin, 2012.

She had sat down on a fallen tree to regain her breath while I poked around in the stream for the tiny mica beads stuck together by caddis fly larvae, which I collected and stored in jars on the front steps waiting for the image to hatch and fly.