New in the garden this morning… a “pop” of orange & purple!

We started out with just a few clouds…
and I admit, I had low expectations for a beautiful sunrise.
I prefer the dramatic clouds over clear skies.

But then… as if on cue, the clouds drifted into place and we ended up
having a classically beautiful sunrise with shimmering reflections on the lake.

Playing with textures & working on another batch of hybrid mugs! Still loving the patterns made with handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools! Better tools make better pots!!!

Another 10×10 day… more than ten by 10:00am.
This time starting a new batch of hybrid mugs!
Well, they don’t look like much yet, but trust me… they will.

I have several of these flowers in my front garden. I’ve always thought they were called “heliotrope”… but just recently learned I was wrong! I now believe it is actually “valerian” and it has such an amazing aroma with these blooms dancing on really tall stems. But when I came home from my bike ride this morning, one of the stems was broken and had fallen over. So I brought it inside, grabbed a tumbler and made this sweet little arrangement… and it STILL smells great!!!

Kicking off another week with another beautiful sunrise.
Lots of clouds coming in from the northwest… slowly drifting over the lake.
Beautiful colors & glimmering reflections.

Painting some accents of colored flashing slip…
around the top rim & on each stamped impression!

Working towards filling a soda kiln in the next couple weeks…

For the final class of my SURFACE DECORATION class, we pulled together all of the glazed bowls we had gotten back from the kiln. A couple weeks prior, I had challenged them all to try a different technique on a little slip of paper. It was fun to watch how each student approached their glazing challenge… but even more fun to see all of the final results!!!

Big clouds… big sky… big drama… big picture!!!

I got up and checked my weather app. It said 100% chance of rain at 5:00am…
but that’s an hour-long guess, right???

And since sunrise is about 5:15am, I thought I might be able to squeeze it in before the rain?! Great cloud coverage… some dramatic shadows & reflections… a bit of wind picking up… and then some sprinkles! Which sent me home sooner than I wanted, while pedaling to get home before the rain.

Which I did… and now it’s raining!!!