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This funky looking thing is a gall, a growth on a plant that's caused by a parasite, fungus or bacteria. This particular specimen is caused by Diplolepis rosae, a gall wasp. The wasp lays eggs in the leaf buds, and the gall grows around the hatched larvae.

These rose galls are so very gorgeous, they look like a magical fantasy plant imo (:

#botany #biology #entomology #krig hikes #bugs

My favourite pieces when beach combing are the ones with printed patterns on them. Not only are they rare, which makes finding them that much more rewarding. But I like to lay them out now and then and see if any of them match up. Even years later, when edges are smoothed so much by the waves that fitting them together like a puzzle would be impossible, the pattern can at least tell me if two pieces are siblings.

Maybe it's the concept of kintsugi that's touched my soul so deeply. Maybe it's the fact that it makes me feel like some sort of archaeologist, finding lost relics of a civilisation that's.. very much still there, albeit changed.

White porcelain with china blue floral patterns is hardly the norm for plates and cups anymore, but that's certainly what I find most of. Which makes me so curious, how old have these shards been in the lake?

7 years is about how long it takes for sand and water to smooth the edges of glass. But I can't imagine that's the upper limit for what I find, not in a place thats been settled since the bronze age.

#sea glass #sea pottery #beach combing #corvidcore #krig hikes #worth noting the vast majority of my finds are just white porcelain #not to mention bottle glass