A pop of color to start your day! Some beautiful asiatic lilies in my neighborhood…
and I’m loving this new color combination!

In between Summer Camp all day & teaching adults at night… I finally found time to unload my soda kiln, pack it all up, clean the kiln, scrape the shelves, kiln was the shelves, clean the kiln room & a bunch of other “glamorous “ tasks! So I can finally share some photos of the soda-fired pots inside… including a bright blue I’m pretty excited about!!!

It’s been a busy week at Summer Camp! This week I have a dozen 10-12 year olds who are having a great time! And in just three days, they’ve learned to wedge, center & throw on the wheel. And they’ve made enough pots to fill the entire table!!! Now we just gotta trim, finish & paint them all with colored slips before end of camp tomorrow. Fingers crossed!!!

Okay… so it looks like I may have left a pad of butter out on the counter a bit too long this morning?!
It was a cube. Thank you heatwave!

And so the heatwave continues. Another hot night, another hot morning. Sure, I coulda stayed in bed longer… but I can sweat on my bike just as much as in my bed! So why not get up early to enjoy the beautiful sunrise while it’s out there? And I did… then it was home, shower, change & off to Summer Camp!

Not a cloud in the sky… just plenty of haze & humidity. Sure, I coulda listened to the weather advisories about how bad it was gonna be outside today… but it was early, and a tad cooler than it will be the rest of the day. So I went for it… and had another wonderful albeit SWEATY sunrise ride!

Just stay safe out there… and hydrate, hydrate, HYDRATE!!!

A quick sneaky-peek into the soda kiln before summer camp.
It’s still a bit warm, so I’ll be unloading it later today after my campers go home!!! Can’t wait…

A beautiful pop of color to start your day… another asiatic lily in the garden!

Hazy & humid. It hasn’t gotten that hot yet, but it’s gonna! We have a very warm forecast for the rest of the week. And I think it’s starting today with a morning ride that was already warm & sticky… and me very sweaty!!!

Since I was headed out to the ‘burbs for dinner with my Dad & Bonnie… I decided to head out early for a pre-dinner hike through the woods. The blue skies had turned to gray, but the flowers were still beautiful… and the egrets didn’t seem to mind!

Yes… my Dad has a girlfriend named Bonnie – for five years now.
And she’s ADORABLE!!! They’re the cutest together!