Lost
Lost: Terrariums in Fort Collins, CO
Old Town Square
Lost
listing
Posted
18 days
ago
Description
I lost two terrariums somewhere in Fort Collins' Old Town Square around 5:40 p.m. last Friday. They’re glass cylinders, about the size of a grapefruit, with moss, a tiny fern, and one even has a little ceramic fox inside. I’d carried them on a tote between the fountain and the bike racks by the Old Town Market stall, and I must have set them down and walked away. It’s frustrating and a little heartbreaking—those terrariums are a small, living piece of my garden, and I’m hoping someone picked them up for safekeeping.
Approximate last-seen location
Old Town Square
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