Kiln Results!!! First Glaze Firing

One pound UP , then CUT: Checking consistency in wall thickness

One pounders.

Why I wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety----

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us int the great hands of light
good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

---Mary Oliver

Independent Study in Clay: Wheel Throwing (or How to Live a Centered Life)

Instructor Joan Curry with Natalie Estes and Katherine Deal packing the first "snowballs" to throw on the wheel.