Yunomi

Here's a yunomi I purchased on one of my Japan trips. I can't believe how thin this piece is! The glaze is the most beautiful, combination of rich colors - mahogany brown, deep ochre, and green. I also purchased some sake sets from this pottery. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the pottery but I do remember that an elderly woman potter who owned the pottery and she was very sweet and very gracious.

Yesterday was spent on the computer all day, except for cooking, eating, walking the dogs and other necessities of daily living.

I got most of my documents saved on my new stand alone hard drive and just as I was finishing the last few files, the blue screen of death came up; so I re-booted, and ran the anti-virus software and went to bed. Fortunately, on the third try, it finally worked and no virus showed up, so the problem is probably what we thought - a dying hard drive/computer.

This morning I'm trying to download XP last sofware download. I've gotten the blue screen of death once so this download may take a few tries. At some point today, I have to research some laptop reviews.

It's been raining all morning so my gardening today may only consists of watering seedlings and maybe transplanting the rest of the lobelias if time permits.Early this week my contractor should be delivering the completed cold frame they're building for me. Then I'll be able to get a lot of these seedlings housed safely in case of any late freezes.
Well, time to get back to work on this sick computer.


Till later,
June

A do nothing day

I thought I was done with posting some of the pots from my Japan trips, but Michael Kline's has been posting his new yunomi pictures on his blog so I thought he'd enjoy this hakeme yunomi with thisclassic pine tree design.

As I suspected our day was spent mainly in front of the TV enjoying the Inaugural events. What a joyous day for America and the world!

I did manage to get meals on the table and go through many of the garden catalogs that have been arriving the past couple of weeks. I've gotten some seeds ordered already and now I'm taking my time not to get too carried away ordering more than I can plant! As Michael Cardew told me years ago, when I admired his vegetable garden "we can't make it too big or we'd have no time to make pots!".

This year I'm going to plant a couple of elderberry bushes - an homage to my youth and picking the wild ones with my grandmother in the woods of Pennsylvania so uncle Georgie could make his elderberry wine. He had a very small wooden barrel which was usually pretty empty by the time the wine was actually ready because he and his friends we're always tasting the batch checking for readiness! My cousin Anita and I would sit on the swing under the grape arbor hand picking those tiny berries off the sprays. Nice memories.

Today will be a studio day. I hope I have more energy after breakfast!

Till later,
June

ORIBE YUNOMI

Here's a modern day Oribe pot that I bought in one of my Japan trips in the early 80's.

It was 2 degrees here this morning, colder than they've seen in these parts for a long time! I got a couple of hours work in the studio just doing a bit of trimming and putting some handles on some mugs. The studio was warm enough because I keep the heat up for my tropical plants who are wintering in there.

Even the dogs did their morning business as fast as they could this morning, for which I was very grateful!

Till later,
June