I was schmying around the Power House antique market on Sunday and came across something I had not seen in my travels. When I picked up these objects, they weighed next to nothing and they looked like mini tree stumps! I found out they were carved anthracite from the NE corner of our fair state and I said, ‘well, these will have to come home with me’. I thought they would make both for lovely flower vessels and satisfy my neglected gothic penchant.