August 21-28, 2022 Fort Collins, Colorado

 High of 78, partly cloudy today.

Wild cucumber blooming on the bike path tonight. 

Sunset. One of McMurry ponds on my bike ride.

Beautiful evening light during my bike ride. The CSU trial gardens. 

At the art museum at CS, some nice African pieces including this at least 3 foot in diameter bowl that was the community beer brewing vessel. The last piece is a piece of glass I am working on beading. I ordered some smaller less flashy beads to try. I might like them better. An Andy Warhol Campbells soup can sculpture. It was built by art students at CSU according to Andy's design, then he signed it.  Inside the art museum was this display of Cannibull's soup cans called Pyramid Scheme. On top is Wall Street Gumbo, below is All American Treasury with Pork and Freddy's Mac and Cheese, below that are Executive bonus consume, Stimulus minestrone, Bailout Bisque, Mortgage broker stew. This hibiscus blooms are bigger than my hand in the Trial garden and I have never seen one of these locking skate board racks. 

I am making bead bezels for some of the beveled polished pendants. I could hardly see the beads with my glasses before surgery. I can see the beads and their holes without glasses, but to actually work with them I need reading glasses, good light and a lighted magnifying glass. This one still needs the bottom finished off. 

I spent most of this week working on the stencil for this piece. I am getting ready to sandblast it. Everywhere that is copper colored will be black and everything else will be coppery. I am choosing dichroic glass to put on it and where. Finally this bowl is done I have been working on three of them for weeks. It is 10 x 3inches. Parts of it have fired 5 times. 

This is another of the ones I have been working on for weeks. It is in the kiln now slumping into the same 10 x 3 inches bowl mold. Parts of it have been fired 7 times. 

Parts of this bowl have been fired 7 times, sandblasted twice and the whole pattern bar was cut into zig zags with my wet diamond ring saw and the edges have been worked on my flat lap. There is gold painted around the edges of the different parts. Working on it for weeks. It is 10 x 10 x 1 1/4. I have spent a week working on the stencil for this. I am getting ready to sand blast it. Everywhere coppery will be black. Everywhere any other color will be coppery. I am choosing which dichroic glass to put on it after it is sand blasted. 

I am working on a beaded bezel for this beveled polished pendant. Before surgery I could barely see the tiny beads. After surgery I can see them, and the holes in them. But to actually work with them I need good light, reading glasses and a lighted magnifying glass. It is coming out real pretty. I need to finish off the bottom of it yet. 

Sunset last night.

Sunset last night and the lights have just gone by the bridge from the bike path.

I got this piece sand blasted and some dichroic glass bits on it. It is firing right now. This bowl is fresh from the kiln this morning. It is 10 x 3 inches. Took forever to make.

My pattern bowl collection.  Front and back. Sunset tonight.