Some Free Wood
A friend and fellow woodworker has a home made sawmill and access to trees that needed to be cut down.  This Hackberry wood came from a tree on his place that had to be removed.  Upon opening it up he found this green spalting.

He gave me a piece of it and I made this box.  Hackberry, or "Poorman's Ash" grows prolifically here in Central Texas, usually along fence lines where birds that have eaten the berries from the tree are sitting when they have their daily constitutional.  The seeds apparently are not digested and sprout creating trees which eventually cause problems with the fencing.  Anyway, by the time I got the piece flat it was too thin for side cuts such as those seen on my front page so I just round the corners and edges.  The grain was too nice to inlay so I thought I'd just let the wood speak for itself.