Spring

Spring

The Seasonals Series

Photograph ~ Daniel Krucoff

At least my glass thinks it is spring even if our weather doesn't. I have photos to share of our blast of winter from this past Friday, April 23.

This bowl is a combination of Bullseye opals and translucent glasses. All shades of green. I wanted to have some of that beautiful light green you see as trees start to bud and young leaves begin to emerge. I opted for making this bowl 3/8" thick rather than the 1/2" I usually do as I wanted to add a little bit lighter weight bowl to the Seasonals. I truly can't resist making thicker bowls, but it is fun to go for ones like this too.

While I continue to look forward to the arrival of spring at our elevation (we're at approximately 7,500'), I know it will be a bit longer. This was clearly demonstrated this past Friday with quite the snow storm.

Drifts anyone?

This was the view out our back door at basset level. Dan cleared a path for them so they could venture out to the back yard. Once he did that, they had a blast playing in this new snow.

We want out!

Bueller (on the left) & Nocturne watched Dan through the doggy door. They do know better, but thought they could both go through the door at the same time. Silly bassets!

Freedom!

Nocturne and Newton are happy now that they can play in the snow.

Thank goodness for snow blowers!

Friday afternoon, Dan is removing the 3+ foot drift from our driveway as I had to get into the Springs to deliver glass work for a show that opens on Friday, April 30th. Our snow fences, in the background of this shot, did their job again! Silly us, we were thinking we would take them down this weekend. Hmmmm, I think we will wait til the middle of May now.

Both Friday and Saturday were quite the interesting weather days. Spring in the Rockies!

As I said in the beginning of this post, at least my glass thinks it's Spring.

Until next time, aspire to be more as and artist and a person.

Newton ~ A Basset Tale..yes pun intended

This is one of our bassets, our youngest one, Newton...named after Sir Isaac. Today is his birthday. On the left, the full grown boy of 3 years. On the right, typical basset puppy sitting posture at 8 weeks! He's still just as cute and sweet today and every inch a puppy!

While this post isn't related to my glass work, he is an integral part of my work as he does keep me company while I'm in the studio. :)

And his parents are pretty gorgeous too....both are Champions. His Dad is Expo, on the left, and his mom is Riva (she's known as Red). I sure do love bassets. My aaaawwww moment of the day.

The Basset Specialty!

Yesterday, Dan and I went to Northglenn Colorado for The Timberline Basset Hound Club's Specialty. Always a fun time for us basset lovers. We got to see a lot of of friends who own, love, and breed bassets.

This is one of my favorite pictures of the day. Our friend, Doug Taylor, with his champion, Cannonball. They were waiting their turn and Doug enjoys showing how bassets can sit up! It helps that he has a liver treat.

I'll be posting an album of other photos Dan took on my facebook page, so feel free to check it out.

Oh yes, and we were thoroughly inspected by our three when we got home. :)

Ain't nothin' but a hound dog.....

One of my favorite things in the whole world is a basset hound. And we have three of them! They are such characters, wonderful companions, and all around clowns. This morning I was able to create this Etsy Treasury, that I called "Ain't nothin' but a hound dog....". Some lovely works by more talented Etsians. I hope you will check this one out because there is at least one of the selections that will make you smile.