This image is a departure from my usual photos of bugs and critters. It is the result of my searching for old music and finding some forgotten art. It is a tale that stretches over 50 years, lol. My music collection started in the mid 50's with vinyl records. By the mid 60's, these got converted to cassettes. By the mid 70's, many of these got transferred to reel-to-reel tapes. These worked fine for me until the mid 80's when my cassette and reel-to-reel players quit working and were obsolete. At that point, all this music got put in some boxes and stored. For me, that was "The Day the Music Died", lol. By 2005, CD's had come along and I had a computer. I decided to see if I could convert my old music to digital. Eventually, I located the friend of a friend who had the required equipment to do this. I just needed to take the material to him. I started looking through storage boxes. I did find the music. I did get almost all of it converted to digital and it was one of the better decisions that I have made in a long time. I had not realized how much I had missed having all that music available, but that's just the first part of this story. In the process of looking for the music, I came across some old art projects I had done over the years. Among this eclectic assortment was a driftwood carving I made about 35 years ago. It was carved using a pocketknife and a hacksaw blade and I managed to free the hand I had originally seen it this piece of drift wood. The carving is slightly bigger than life size. Most of the hollow places in the arm were the result of my having to remove some rotted parts of the wood, but that worked out better artistically than I had originally envisioned, lol. I decided to take a few photos of it so I could share it with you. Unfortunately, my photos do not really do it justice and I really do need to make a stand for it. My thanks to those who have taken the time to comment on previous postings. The feedback is appreciated. Lee