I was out Friday morning, cold but the sunshine made it great walking to the pond.
Great beech tree tracery and a large stormdowned branch to come home for added decor.
I hadn't checked on Sally Pointer recently -- older blogistas will remember my adventures in Neolithic crafts like cordage, which I learned from her. I noticed a Neolithic reference in a blog, remembered her, and went to check what she's up to.
She went to Spain, I think, on vacation recently, and did a bit of orange related craft, bergamot boxes, using windfallen fruit from street orange trees.
You can definitely guess what happened here next. She shows how to make them, starting with fresh fruit, then how to decorate them. This isn't Neolithic, nearer Elizabethan, but she was on vacation!
The fruit needs to be thick walled, and I have had these before and noticed they had much thicker walls than juicier lemons. The oranges available are thinner walled more fragile varieties, so lemons it is. Watch this space.
Meanwhile we are under a Santa Watch
