Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Canning

I am making raspberry jam today. Here's the first batch. These are pint jars and I've got berries for a whole lot more.


Finally some peony poppies. 


Chokes, like alien heads floating above the garden. I harvested a bunch of tiny heads, cut them in half and cooked them into a pasta dish. Wow!


Here are a couple of porcelain bowls I'm working on. This first one started cracking around the rim as I was making the texture so I patched it up and humidified it to kind of even out the moisture in the clay. We'll see if it survives the fire.



Some of the jars I made back in December, finally fired. The red background and contrasty lighting isn't the best for photos . 







Tractor

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