2016-11-05 - Saturday - Sycamore

I'm constantly amazed at the size of sycamore leaves. I found this one outside my sister-in-law's door and it's huge. My hand is not small and it dwarfs it in this photo.

Wonder is all around us. We just have to see it.

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2015-01-04 - Sunday - Empty bowls

Sunday I noticed the last leaf of autumn stuck to my van fender. The leaves have been down for quite some time now so I was surprised to see one stuck there.

I went to Clayworks and made a bunch of empty bowls. I'm behind schedule on these so I really need to catch up for this year's quota.

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2014-11-18 - Tuesday - MAJOR Catch-up Part 4

More catch-up...

November 3 - Binkley's trip to the vet.

He's fine, just wanted to check on his hip problems and get some advice.  At thirteen he's doing very well with a lot of energy but has some hip problems.  He loves to put his nose out the window for the 2.5 mile trip.

November 5 - Pots from the church.

On November 2 I threw pots at the Light of Christ United Methodist Church during the service.  My friend Roger asked me to fill in for him since he was not feeling well.  It was a great experience since it took me out of my comfort zone and the folks at the church were wonderful.  On November 5 I trimmed the pots.

November 6 - Fired pots.

I got my pots back from the recent firing.

Fired pots

November 8 - Indian Trail Cultural Arts Center sale.

I participated again in the second year of the sale and had a really nice time and a good day.

My booth.

Hey, there's a single red leaf.

Yup, it is the only one.

Sunset on the ITCAC.

More impressionism across the street.

Sunset a few moments later.  Nice.

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August 14 - Tuesday pods and leafy handles

I started making some more pods to be raku-fired and put some wonky leaf handles on my "flower" pot.  Greg gave me some good advice on the leaf decorations since I was trying way too hard to make them symmetrical.  Sometimes it's very hard to defeat the natural impulse to symmetry.  The mind wants everything to be symmetrical and you have to work at keeping it at bay.

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