Ashtray, garlic bowl or perhaps spoon rest.
The start of a three legs series!

oriental poppy, flamboyant huge blooms making the garden glow.

more 'mum' bowls and tiles - house sign, a few 'mum' tiles and more for 2012.

With some more encouraging signs of spring in my garden today.

The snow's gone now and it's warming up but this evidence of an early morning walk was left for a little while.

Three more mum bowls for the collection, the pile is stacking high now. 

Playing with the new water colours Kate gave me.

with my iris reticulata out despite the cold, adding some cheer to the start of the year.