Pickins'

My brother has rented a property in town that has two houses, and some outbuildings and the whole place has been empty for so long that it has almost been completely destroyed (he is redoing one of the houses). However, at one time, someone who owned it had put a whole lot of work into the yard. There are buried stepping stones everywhere, pots, birdbaths and statuary.  Today when we visited him, we went "pickin" in the yard. He wants to get rid of anything he can so was happy that I wanted some of it.
The first thing he gave me is this birdbath. I think it is lovely but this is its good side. It needs some work.

I then found this cast iron muffin tin on one of the porches. It is a little rusty but it isn't pitted so with some care and cleaning it might be alright.

I also got several terracotta pots. I have some petunias that may get planted in some of these if I ever get any time to do some more planting.

The absolute best thing I got, however, was this wood.  My brother was nice enough to cut it in half with his chainsaw.

I am hoping that one of these pieces is my future bread  bowl. Don't look for it to happen too fast though. I will have to work on it a bit at a time. I will keep you undated though.