The discovery of slowness

To East Lothian, for a walk on the beach between the showers. The picture is a washed up section of beech tree; the tundra-like patterns are caused by a fungus; really close up, the smoothness of the white wood is lightly roughened by tiny sastrugi-like protrusions - an arctic landscape in a piece of driftwood ...

EDIT: a new title, to reference Sten Nadolny's novel based on the life of the C19th arctic explorer John Franklin