A ceramic pot by artist Helen Foster of Margaret River, Western Australia.

The beautiful relief design on this pot speaks to me of bits of dried grass at the top of a sandhill, or something washed up on the beach and dried.

At times this blogger thing is a bit frustrating, as even when you think you are planning out things to appear on the page in a logical order, sometimes with the best will in the world, they don’t! And, since I have a quilt calling to me from upstairs, I am not going to linger longer on this. I have confidence my readers will be able to link the three pictures and read the text in slightly wrong order OK.