Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Jelly… fish

There is a little saying in our family, when one of the others is going on about something serious or boring, or serious and boring, “I like jelly!” I like jellyfish… I think they are incredibly beautiful and interesting – at a distance! I have actually eaten jellyfish, and thought it interesting, an unexpected texture […]

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Bark!! American bark!

I have a fascination with tree bark, the infinite variety of unique patterns and marks never fail to catch my attention as I’m wandering through trees. There are a few trees I recognize by their bark, but far more that I don’t. I was looking at a painting by Jackson Pollock which is in the Museum of […]

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