Crisp & clear… with plenty of wind & splashing waves all around. This morning was a little cooler than expected with crazy cool gusty winds coming in from all directions! Very fun (and a little dangerous) along the lakefront when the waves are crashing in & splashing upwards. It’s a challenge to “catch the splash” on film… and NOT “catch the splash” getting soaking wet!!! It’s all in the timing…

With a drop in temperatures, it feels oddly Fall-like outside… so it seems somehow appropriate to be spending the afternoon “pumpkintizing”!!!

With a rainy start to the day, I ended up adding some colored flashing slip details in the studio early this morning before heading down to summer camp!!!

Tonight in my pottery class we went European… with OREOs from France! ooh, la la… thanks to my friend Tracy for bringing them back for me!!! Apparently Pac-Man is universal. Merci beau coup Tracy!!!

Today I stamped the cylinders that are going to become my “matching” mugs for class. I decided to turn them into two different sets… with two different “sets” of thrown cylinders that were closer to matching than the others. And then I stamped each “set” with a different stamp. Hoping that as I trim them & add handles, they will continue to get even more matchy-matchy!!!

About a half hour after I had gotten home “dry” from my bike ride… staying dry in my car while driving to Lillstreet for another week of summer camp! Crazy storm blowing through with lots of HAIL!!! And truth be told, I don’t think I’ve ever been driving inside my car during a hail storm. It was crazy loud & a little scary with diminished visibility! YIKES!!!

Also exciting this morning… finding that some of the bike trail “intersections” have been repainted… with hopefully more to come!!! Clearly designating the green safety zone for cars crossing the path. As well as a clear separation of the BIKE trail versus the RUNNING path. A HUGE Thank You from all of us that use the lakefront trail every day!

And this is why we can’t have nice things! HA!

Not so sure about this “art installation?” along the lakefront. It looks like there were several DIVVY bikes dragged out of the lake… and then put into a “cage” for safe keeping? But then there’s nothing to close the cage? Not quite sure why they didn’t just call DIVVY to take their bikes away when they were pulled out.

And more importantly… why were they even tossed into the lake in the first place?!!!

When I started out on my bike this morning it was just dark. But as it lightened up a bit, I started to see the clouds all around me. Who knew that there were going to be storm clouds in the area?! Not me! So I pedaled on… seemingly dodging the storms as they blew in around me. There were some gusty winds, a little drizzle here & there… and many sections where you could see that it had already rained harder! I made it home safely… and dry… with just minutes to spare. About ten minutes later… a HUGE downpour!!!

Another early morning being productive in the studio… making more than 10 before 10:00am!!! Now I just have a lot of “detailing” to make them come to life!!!