A few years ago, walking along Lake Michigan, looking for things washed up in the waves, we found a piece of driftwood that, even in its natural, unenhanced save water-worn form, suggested an early animal's head. It only remained for us to add it to our satchel of finds and with a little added paint back at home convert it to a handle for a pot lid with a missing knob, as illustrated. The lid has been in service ever since.
Beach-combing has been a life-long pre-occupation and a habit that perhaps gives the lay of the land for our raccoon interest. Raccoons are renowned for their water's edge foraging (and food-washing). Beneath the 'imagine' plaque recently presented to the SRN editor as a birthday gift from his wife, is a stone that was found on the beach years go at Northport in Door County. It rested among an expanse of similarly 'un-notable' wave-slung pebbles and rocks.
As fortune would have it, this particular one was shimmering in the waves, face-up at our toes, else we would not have noticed it. A lucky find, it is crystallized within, possessing a golden 'delta' or triangle. The symbolism is endless........everything stands for something else, doesn't it?
Do you not find?
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