Bringing some of Nature’s beauty inside to avoid overnight cold warnings… Tracy was showing off her tulips in her new porcelain vase from my “Quite White Collection.” Love how the colorful tulips really “pop” against the crisp whiteness!

Kinda wondering if I should re-visit this white collection???
It’s been a while.

It was such a beautiful day today, so after my “surprise walk” and my frozen custard treat, I hopped on my bike for a little afternoon biking adventure through a few “new-to-me” neighborhoods around my ‘hood, and then back to the lakefront before heading home!

When it’s so beautiful outside, you’ve gotta grab it while you can!

Just one of the vases included in this first “installment” of my online pottery sale. Sometimes you just need to see a vase with flowers to picture its full beauty & potential. BYOL… bring your own lilacs!

Yesterday I “expanded” my lock-down biking adventures by taking my bike out to Busse Woods in Elk Grove Village for a couple loops around the bike trail by myself. It’s been quite awhile since I’ve ridden that trail. A fun flashback as I actually grew up in EGV. A beautiful spring day to ride through the forest preserve.

And then after my ride, I drove out a little further and had a great “socially-distant” picnic with my Dad, sister and niece Taylor. We all sat in a square six-feet from each other and chatted for a couple hours. It was great to see them face-to-face again… but is THIS what family gatherings have actually come to???

A little splash of cheery sunshine & beautiful spring flowers
from one of my customers up in Wisconsin…
eager to show off her new stamped & soda-fired vase!

This little guy started out yesterday looking more like Audrey 2 than the prettiest tiny orchid ever it turned into today!!!

A lot of Nature’s beauty out there today, as I went for another solitary afternoon bike ride along the North Branch Bike Trail. Sometimes you can almost forget for a few moments the “icky situation” we’re all going through when Spring’s beauty is popping up everywhere… and then I re-adjusted my face mask!!!

And this beautiful African violet has been blooming since last Fall !!! One of my favorite customers propagates & grows African violets… all from his Mother’s original plant from something like forty years ago! A beautiful tribute to his Mom… and a great gift he shared when he gave it to me at my Holiday Home Show already planted in one of my own flowerpots!!!

And it hasn’t stopped blooming since!!!
Not sure why… but I’ll take it.

While this happy wavy one has been replanted recently in a new stamped & soda-fired flowerpot… just finding more “diversions” from working on the REAL projects I “should be” tackling during this crazy time off!

One of the very few benefits of “sheltering-at-home” is getting to enjoy some of your houseplants more… especially when they’re blooming! Like this little orchid that has decided to bloom again for the third time! And not too far behind, I have two more orchid plants that have thrown up some more flower buds.

A lot of people ask what I do to get them to re-bloom. And I tell them LITERALLY nothing!!! You can see that they are still in their original plastic container just dropped into a ceramic mug. No soil added. Just as it came. Sure, they might be a little root-bound… but I figure if they’re re-blooming they’ve got to be happy, right?! And so there they stay… in a mug… in my kitchen window!

Lucky if they get watered like once or twice a month!!!