If you’ve read the “About” page at this site, you know a little about me, and my profile picture (somewhat out of date) is all over the Internet, but my new friend artist Rachael Ellzey, who lives next door to the Old Library and has taken an interest in my work, thought I should include a photo of myself, preferably in my yardwork uniform, somewhere on the blog. So I invited her to snap some shots, and here’s one of the results.
The photos were taken in the back (southeast) corner of the property, where camphor and especially sparkleberry have been allowed to run wild, creating a rather byzantine background! (It was actually a lot more tangled before I cut out some of the thick vines that were in my way.)
Rachael had been intrigued by my posts about “buried treasure” on the property and brought out a strange object she had found in her yard. She thought it might be some kind of bone, but in retrospect we decided it was too light to be bone, and the exposed cell structure must surely be vegetative rather than animal. She plans to incorporate it into a planting, and it should make a unique centerpiece.
We welcome guesses as to its origin!
WalkThoughts 
Hello Suzanne 🙂
I will take a guess at the origin of your friend’s “strange object” – it might be a broken-off (rather large) base of a palm frond.
I’ll be interested to find out the final opinion on the “origin of the specie”.
Best regards
Don
Sydney, Australia
Sounds like a good guess. There are palmettos on the property, though not actual palms, I think. We’ll take a harder look.