Drying herbs

This Thai basil drying on my dining room table created an interesting pattern and reminds me of a Japanese scroll painting.

Got all the pots slipped yesterday but will have to do some touch up of the slip and decorate a a couple of them today. Spent the evening still going through glaze books and doing some pot sketching - was even dreaming of work last night.

Looks like we're getting the freeze tonight, that we escaped last night, so I'll be covering some pepper plants and harvesting what I can and hope for the best. After two nights of low temperatures, we'll have several days of above freezing at night and hopefully the last of those pepper will ripen enough to be used.

Time to get to the studio for the day. Since I don't have to cook tonight I can get in a full day.

Becky Gray at Spruce Pine Potters Market

Here's the only shot I got of Becky Gray's booth; but you can see more of her wonderful figurative sculptures at: http://www.theartistsshowcase.com/beckygray/

The sun is shining after a lot of rain overnight, so I may just get out in the afternoon for a little walk with Bodhi and  see if there are any mushrooms to be found.

Still dealing with swollen glands, etc., so I'm going to stay out of the studio and continue my glaze/slip recipe project of transferring favorite slip and glaze recipes out of the ten thousand I have, into one notebook for easy reference. That's going to take a day or more to complete, along with a few other little projects I need to finish.

Jim  had to return the light timers because they only took a two prong plug, so I have to get the new ones set up today and get studio and basement plants watered. Some of the herbs I've been drying need to be removed from their stems and labeled and stored. There are always non studio things to tend to.

We'll finish the chicken soup tonight - glad I made a big pot!