That's a Potzpottery face vessel there in the front with a fresh new color for spring! My friend Debra made it a few years ago and gave it to me because she knows I love anything with a face on it. Anyway, it was a dark color and you could barely see the face. In fact for a long time I didn't even know the carvings were a face until I got it ( Read more... )

I was recently visiting Debra and (of course) photographing the peacocks. I watched Big Bird for awhile as he was making his way up a large tree.

When he was sitting still on a branch, I got a nice shot of him looking upward. I figured he was going to fly to the next branch soon, and I thought I would be ready.

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I'm overwhelmed with thinking of writing a catch-up post, so I'm strictly in the moment here ( Read more... )

I was recently visiting my friend Debra and enjoying all the peacocks (she has about 50 at the moment, males, females and now a new morph of females that have a different brighter color neck) when suddenly Big Bird (the alpha male of the whole group) starts displaying right in front of me ( Read more... )

A bit of excitement in my usually non-descript, quiet life. The workers are here. Today is the day the skylight is being replaced.

***note: the leaking roof of last month turned out to be the skylight. There were many hairline cracks around a lot of the perimeter and that’s where the water was coming in, not a leak in the roof. I think we ( Read more... )

1,2,3. Do bad things still come in threes? If so, I’ll group these three together and be done with it and move on to better things. The horrible crud I had over Christmas is still hanging on. The cough just will not go away and I haven’t gotten my taste buds back completely yet. That is maddening ( Read more... )

I have had a horrible sinus infection beginning right before Christmas, so I have been sort of absent in the kitchen area for awhile. This onion stayed hidden among the pottery and was not noticed until it started sprouting a top from behind the butterfly bowl. It’s been this way almost two weeks now and still growing. I like things like this ( Read more... )

Today is a much better day ( Read more... )

finally struts his stuff . . . ( * )

I went to the gallery this morning to photograph Pam doing the last Demo of the season and I was really looking forward to this one. Most of the Saturday morning demos (there were 11 in all) were about painting, matting or framing of some sort, but I still learned something new each week, as every artist has different styles and techniques of ( Read more... )