The photo under the cut is of our entire class/cast, and I'm the teensy STARRING cowgirl right in the middle. (The even tinier girl on the left of the photo is the teacher's daughter.) Amazingly, I still remember the names of some of my classmates.

Things that just get put aside "for later" when you're short of funds...
family (roots) searching for food (rooting) couldn't find a photograph of roots for the life of me, lots of trees though...
This is a root you don't often see - this is the holdfast of some sea-weed torn from it's hold on the seabed and cast up on the shore after a storm.…