Small bowl - Raintree.
A small clock, inset into Raintree. Thanks t
o Tom for the photo.
Vase - Raintree timber. 
Some time ago a little old man was walking through a forest - well a city park with some trees in it. He saw, lying on the ground, a lump of wood.
It was not a really small lump of wood, which would not have been any good for anything; it wasn't a really big lump of wood, which would have been too heavy to pick up; it was a medium size lump, just right to pick up, carry back to his car, and take home.
It was a piece of Raintree, and had been lopped from a tree by city Council workers that very day. The little old man saved it from the dreaded woodchipping gang.
And the little old man had a woodturning lathe. And the photos show what he did with the lump of wood:
It also provided the timber for another clock insert, smaller than the one in the photo, and for a couple of pens.
I'm sure my piece of Raintree must be very happy I saved it from the dreaded wood-chipping gang.
