I have had a container of leaf-shaped tiles around that I had made several years ago. They are stoneware and glazed in different colors, and they were left over from some other projects that I had done. I decided it was time to put them to use. So, the 5 others in my coffee/sewng group came over for a bit of a craft session. Everyone brought a couple of cement "blanks" -- simple stepping stones that you find at a home building supply store. We mixed up some mortar, spread it on the cement bases, and then pressed the tiles into the mortar to dry.
Later on, I noticed that one of the trees had lots of these really tine pine cones forming on the ends of the branches that are low to the ground. I wonder why they don't grow on the higher up branches...
