Red Cedar

Mum's next door neighbour when they were children remained a close family friend for all of her 92 years. He loved wood and at 80 years of age made her a beautiful red cedar jewel case. Today's challenge made me think of this case. When I took it from the cupboard where it was buried with other memories I found to my delight these two forgotten pieces - her engagement ring and a little heart given to her by one of her beloved nieces.

[alia_801]

Beautiful red wood! Pretty treasures too :)

[Nicole Campbell]

That would have been a nice surprise for you when you opened the box.

[Ruth Moucharafieh]

What lovely tokens! Nicely done!

[Beth]

Beautiful capture of these lovely tokens. What nice memories.

[Naomi]

this is lovely :)

[Junan Heath]

Lovely shot! :)

[Dione Giorgio]

Gorgeous.

[Robin]

What beautiful keepsakes. And a great shot of them.

[Jan]

Love red cedar colour and texture. The heart is quite quaint. What a find filled with past memories.

[Pyrrhula]

So sweet, so nice.

[Amanda Thepanda]

Lovely. In a former life, I was a scientist and I looked into growing red cedar in plantations (difficult due to tip moth attack). Plantations would be ruined by this insidious little grub..... and then I worked in FNQ and saw log after log of red cedar come into the yards for sale .... they grew as weeds inside the hoop pine plantations and were thinned out and sold as they matured .... so a surrogate plantation worked!