My job had another all night implementation, so I spent the wee hours of the morning working in the shop between status meetings.  Using another piece of the wood my second daughter found, I started to make a bowl.  Didn’t take too long to realize that between the deep crack that was uncovered when the bark came off and the pith of the tree that couldn’t be used, the bowl was going to get really shallow.  When I got the outside shape done, I didn’t want to do just another bowl, so since this had a line of bark inclusions across the top, I’d make it into a hollow form.  This thing has had all the wood removed from the middle, leaving a disk that’s about 1 1/2″ deep in the middle.  The finial is walnut, which I think matches pretty well.