We work with wood and its wonderful

Was carting out stuff in anticipation of renovations yesterday and had to cut up some satin box ( like it suggests -you can sleep on it and just playing with it is cool and its oh so white in colour ( eg we make kids hammers  out of it )  that I had retrieved from a gully years ago in the old Volvo . The original piece would have been be too big to use at home,  but its a joy,  like so many of our woods,  to remind us of how things are made new every day .

Here's another wood we have lots of  .Blackwood with fiddleback - Maton the guitar makers still take some from our comrades locally.

Might not seem much of a photo ( outside our Creative Living Centre ) but it contains the statistical significance of the ages - the way our rainforests regenerate ! In a previous post , I had the top down view of these two plants showing how you can hardly see through them from the top ( they thrive in the deep dark valleys of the southern fall of the Otways ). Juvenile leaves ( shown in previous ) do amazing things in some species ! If you get the chance to go to our most popular walk on the Great Ocean Road ( Mait's Rest ) there is a huge Blackwood tree at the waterfall whose roots start growing above your head .( you literally stand under it ) A Fern not only gave it a leg up,  but a real heads up . Not bad for a mere plant and a mere competitor .
More on 
http://swearthnews.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/leaves-in-low-light-rainforest.html