Lovely bit of beech

I finished sanding the surface of my workbench today, and I am pretty stiff in the forearms. It has taken a while, but I think it was worth it; I have more physical day to day contact with the bench than any other tool in the bakery.

The intimate contact of such lengthy sanding contains many opportunities for interpreting the patterns in the grain - a reward for virtue, as it were. Here are some of my favourites.

These two are pure Hebridean sky-island-seascapes:

And this streak of silver could be the side of a salmon:

Enjoy your day!