Busy weekend

I had a good, productive weekend June 18-19. After all, this is the best week of the year. You've gotta love nearly 16 hours of daylight!

Here's the finished bird tile for BayArts' "8x8" show. I'm happy that the spider shows up so well.

Birdbath number 3, about 16 inches in diameter. As you can see, I decided against the snake idea. Don't want to scare away the birds!

I'm running out of bisqueware to paint, so I threw some more pieces using white clay. The bowls in front are cereal-bowl sized. The one in the rear is quite a bit larger. I also started some more brown mugs for the "dotted" set.

I glazed the fish cups I painted last week with my favorite "light green shino" glaze...

...and I also glazed the box turtles and tureen. What can I say? I was in the mood for glazing.

I had a visitor in the BayArts' basement pottery studio on Saturday afternoon as I was finishing these up. Something brown skittered past my peripheral vision... At first I assumed it was a leaf, but it turned and ran into the kiln room. Spider? Giant centipede? No, it was a chipmunk. The kiln room is no place for a little critter, especially one who likes to gnaw, so I chased him back outside. It took awhile: we have lots of good places for hiding.