Wood

STBO, State the bloody obvious. This is a piece of white heather burr from Italy. About 4 years ago I started to make a pipe, I had all the images in my mind, the materials were sorted, but the brain let me down. 
I have retrieved it from whence it lay, cuddled it, stroked it and the wood has started talking to me again. There is very little in the natural world that appeals as much as bare wood, the scent the grain, the colour. Hopefully my hands can still do what the grey stuff tells them to do and I can go back to making something memorable. 
Extra is one of my previous efforts. A lady commented that she was surprised I could have such imagination in my mind to be able to see the contents of a block of wood. Little did she know what furtive things were happening in my mind. :-))))