Beauty and the beast

It has rained most of the day  and so today's offering was produced indoors.
The beauty is, of course, a fuschia flower, and for my money flowers don't come much more beautiful than those produced by  fuschias.
The beast is an old toenail that was shed by Old Nick himself last time he visited Talpa Towers.
The truth is rather less dramatic, Devil's toenails are the fossilised remains of Gryphaea arcuata an ancient and extinct type of oyster that flourished in our seas some 200 million years ago.