Fern

A bishop's crozier is said to be a fancied-up shepherd's crook, but most croziers look more like this- a fern frond on the point of unfurling. And a fern frond on the point of unfurling, when you come to think of it, looks a lot like a vortex, which looks a lot like a spiral galaxy. Symbolism is never a matter of A=B, but more like A=B=C... and when one alphabet runs out you start on another...
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Not quite out yet this bit further north and west.
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Those are beautiful textures. And colors.
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