July 12-18, 2024 Fort Collins, Colorado

 100 degrees and sunny. Good day to stay inside and play with glass.

The official temp was 100, but in our backyard it was 107! I planted my garden three weeks ago. This tomato plant had a couple green tomatoes on it. This one is red already. It may be awhile before there are more.

Two of the latest combed pieces. I am into it. 

This one is done. It is 10 x 10 x 1. The center is combed and the border are strips of another combed piece. I have also been making beveled, polished dichroic glass pieces. I can't go into the studio without sitting down and doing a few. I will be wire wrapping for the next year with all I have made so far. 

This piece is in the kiln, it has slumped, but it won't be cool enough to take out till late tonight. I was venting it at high temp, so the colors are still not all right, still sort of red hot. Sunset on the bike trail over the Poudre river.

Yet another photo of sunset tonight. Saw this homemade camper on a Subaru Outback. Looks kind of cool, but I  wonder how it is attached? And how well the Subaru can drive with that on it. 

I combed this piece of glass last night. I made it to match the puddles to the left of it. So I  could use them up as the border for it. And it does not really match them. The black and white took over. I have another one in the kiln cooling now that has no black in it. I figure I can add some black when I fuse it to the puddles. John thinks it looks evil! I pulled this out of the kiln this morning too. It came out well. 

 We were eating dinner on the deck in the rain and the sun came out, and we saw this cool rainbow. Another beauty! 

Down town Denver from the Kaiser building. I visited all my drs and am still healthy. Good to go for another year.  Sue, Nancy and Kay. We met for lunch and Nancy gave me the rubber chicken. We used to work together at Humana and passed that chicken around for years. It is looking pretty sad. Great to see them. 

 Sunset with 2 birds. Another sunset with the moon.

Sunset.

And yet another sunset over the Poudre river. Moon, pink from sunset. 

On the left is from a bag of ugly puddles I made that I never used. I made this center piece to match the puddles, and here it is in the kiln before firing.

July 8-11 2024 Fort Collins, Colorado

 87 and partly cloudy.

This is in the kiln right now. It is 10 x 10 inches. I am loving these combed pieces. I stopped to take a picture of some sunflowers on my bike ride tonight and this gold finch was sitting on them. He nicely posed for me. Sunflower, colests ?, bee plant, blanket flower and purple prairie clover. 

McMurry Ponds. Horses crossing the river. 

Bike path by the river. Bike path by the river. I love riding near sunset, the light is so pretty.

 Poudre river. Spurge,  two lilies and delphiniums in my garden.

Sunset.

This came out of the kiln looking great. I will slump it into a bowl mold. This is in the kiln firing right now. 

I did another comb tonight. I did a spiral. It is still red hot here, so you can't see the colors. It could look like mud or really cool. Will see tomorrow when it cools off. Here it is today, it came out beautiful. I am loving this combing. 

Tonight's comb. It is red hot so you can't see the colors, but it is blues and greens. Along the bike path tonight.

The water park and the river along the bike path.

Sunset. Part of old town this evening.

Cool piece of art in old town square. Free music tonight in the square. 

 

July 5-7, 2024 Fort Collins, Co 80524

 High of 83 and sunny.

More fused, beveled, polish dichroic glass I made. Sunset over old town on first Friday.

Entrance to the Exchange. It is a square surrounded by restaurants and shops, many in containers. My cousin Steve at the Xmas in July celebration with my family. 

Cousins Jamie and Gina at the Xmas in July celebration with my family. 

Cousins Brad and Carla at the Xmas in July celebration with my family. Justin and Tammy with the feast.

More feast and cousins. 

We had a great dinner outside at the Xmas in July celebration with my family. John drove the new truck down to Denver. First road trip in it.

Sunset from our drive back to Fort Collins. I wrapped these three fused, beveled, polished dichroic glass pieces. 

Views along the bike path. The Poudre River and the shrubs around the lake.

Flowers along the bike path. Three colors of upright coneflower, purple prairie clover, cut leaf cone flower, white sweet clover, milk weed and goldenrod. This is in the kiln now. The middle part is the Celtic knot combed piece I made, the border is another combed piece cut in strips. I really like it, I hope it comes out ok.