Abstract Thursday: Texture

Ingeborg has set "Texture" as today's optional AT theme and I do like the textures in this rather weird material, as well as the abstract patterns.

It's a natural subject too, no fartnarkling required. We had our roof replaced 2 years ago for recurrent leaks, with good effect. Well, a few weeks ago I was poking around in a rarely visited part of the loft (as you do) when I spotted some yellow-brown material stuck to some of the beams: I was concerned that it could potentially be some dry rot resulting from the previous leaks, although the wood seemed sound so I wasn't at all sure. We have a wet and dry rot insurance policy so I emailed some photos to the company and this morning a very nice chap came to inspect it. After having a good look at it he was certain it was actually the remnants of an old dormant wasps' nest - so nothing to worry about. This is a tiny fragment thereof. The intricacy of wasps nests are amazing and seemingly they can be enormous - the guy told me that he's seen one as big as a dustbin! - that must have required an awful lot of wasp mouthfuls of chewed up wood although the layers are very thin, like textured paper.