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.