Some more pretty flowers just down the street. Every year these stargazer lilies start to bloom… and I’m reminded that I’ve wanted to add these to my garden too. But at this point in the summer… it’s a bit too late to get them planted!!! Maybe next year?…

Another cool morning along the lake. Another morning with wind & splashing waves. Not much of a sunrise view as we are being “infiltrated” by some wildfire smoke blowing in thanks to our northern neighbors in Canada. Hard to believe it’s already August… where did the time go???

With yesterday’s Farmers Market…
I came home with some sweet little fresh apricots.
Luckily I have a cute little carved bowl perfect for them!

Mental note to self… Yummy, but I think I prefer my apricots dried!

So excited for my first dahlia of the summer!!! I got the tubers in the ground a little later than normal… and didn’t pre-start them inside either. So I think we’re a little behind… but worth the wait. Hopefully a lot more flowers to come!!!

With crazy cool winds coming in off the lake, the waves were churning & splashing. Waves everywhere!!! Winds blowing the cooler temps… almost a bit chilly. Especially when my timing was off… and I got a bit of a misty spray in the face!

It was a very productive evening in the studio. Lots of stamping, trimming & finishing. I had a lot of oval vases, class demo bowls & summer camp demos to attend to. Luckily, I got them all done… and now they’re drying!

Finishing up a batch of large oval vases. Just adding some accents of colored flashing slip in the stamped textures. The colors will show up better after soda-firing… this slip should turn orange!!!

Looks like Maryanna has been listening!!! Some newly carved mugs with colored slip backgrounds… using some great carving tools from DiamondCore Tools. Good to know my mantra is stuck in a few people’s heads!!! Ha!!!

Quiet & still this morning along the lakefront with some dappled clouds covering the sky. Good potential to color the sky… but it never really happened. Instead we got some cool shrouded sunrise photos with the sun playing hide & seek behind the clouds!

More than ten pieces thrown before 10:00am.
This time it was continuing with the “ Christmas In July” theme…
with a bunch of wheelthrown ornaments!