Week 25... "You Are looking at my Garden"

Focus on Life ... Week 25

This is what I spend every nice day working on from March until I give up in September... None of what you see here was here when we bought this house in 2001... We bought a pink bungalo with weedy grass a couple of overgrown cedars and no garden!

Original house 2002... Yard and house 2010
Gallery sign has been improved upon in the last 3 years too!

(PS.  Since I took the pictures a deer has eaten the hosta!)

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Week 13~ Have Faith

Week 13 of Focus on Life... 25% of the way through the year.. I usually have these written and ready to post by Tuesday or Wednesday... It's already Friday... of Easter Weekend...  (I took the pictures on Tuesday before the most recent SNOW!

I live on a coast that has some of the highest tides in the world.... I really don't understand why the millions of gallons of water move in and out of 'my' cove 3.7 times per day but I have faith that the tides here will continue to rise and fall

 My faithful tide clock....

 When I had the idea to spent the next 8 hours photographing the water coming and going from thecove this is where the tide was...

10 :09 am Atlantic time

just over two hours from high tide....

12:03 Atlantic Time

12:37 ... High Tide

13:13 The tide has turned

15:37 My yard is getting noticeably bigger!

16:43 2 hours from low tide

18:30  Atlantic Time Low Tide

The extremely ugly thing in the picture is one of the old ferries.. a neighbour bought it to use as a wharf and storage for their lobster traps... It is still in use but big chunks seem to fall off every year... 

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Week 12~ Observe the Curve

Focus on Life week 12 

Thought I'd take you back to Costa Rica for this weeks prompt!

These pictures were taken in Guaitil , where the entire town is dedicated to making pottery from local clays in a pre Columbian style!  Picture # 1 is pounding the clay  .... remember the air temperature is  34 C ... 94 F not my idea of a fun job!

Throwing the pot... the wheel was being turned by hand and was made out of old bicycle parts (wonder where the pre Colombians got their bicycles!)  I love the curves you get making pottery on a wheel... however I was somewhat hopeless when it came to building pots on a wheel the one class I took! Which is why I became a fibre artist... Wool doesn't fight back!  Glass however does!

Think this is a decorated version of what he was building... 

Thought I'd throw in a piece of my work this week too... this was a prototype I did for a residential commision... I don't think that some of the curves flow at all well in this panel... but it was the curviest thing I could find in the house!  And the rondels were all made by me on my minor torch

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