Spring and silly fun in my backyard...

I don't have that great of a camera, but it's okay on a good day, and it takes great close-ups.  The other day the sun was shining brightly through the spring leaves, so I took some pictures.  I love the bright green color of spring leaves!  In my spare time I've been working on a book cover for a fantasy novel that I wrote.  The manuscript is now being copy-edited, so I won't share the finished cover until it's uploaded to the Amazon Kindle.  It'll be a while, but here are some pictures of weird vines and roots that I took and manipulated, and of course a sword...  I was after a mysterious and slightly creepy look....

Vines

Old potato vine pod and lots of twisted dead leaves

Fairy abode....

Dead potato vine smothering a group of bushes.

                                                            Roots from a fallen giant...

How I used my new torch-fired enamel beads...

I really wanted to use copper chain for this charm bracelet, but since I didn't have any and couldn't get to a store, I took my good ole oxidized chain, some steel wire, some charms, and my blue/green/mauve/lavender enameled beads and created this bracelet:  Mermaid's Gift!