The full title of this is: "Eilonwy's Bauble: The Golden Pelydryn", after the Black Cauldron series, by Lloyd Alexander. Eilonwy is the last daughter of Angharad, and is able to make the bauble glow with a brilliant light, by thinking of helping others. She says, of the bauble: "You see things differently in it, clearer, somehow."

There's no special reason for this piece--in fact, I have several photo shoots I should be editing right now, not to mention various house tasks, emails I owe people, things I need to send, etc--but it's a vacation day, and instead of doing any of that, I randomly opened a folder from an old shoot of Maura, as Belldandy, and was practicing color correction...which went very well indeed--but led to my realizing how much this reminded me of Princess Eilonwy--and that I'd rather like to do a textural piece from it--so, here it is. Ah, procrastination!