From the Garden on Friday

Scalloped ...

Patty-pan squash

Hamlin Ceramics

Last Saturday Ralph and I visited the North Carolina Ceramics Arts Festival in Asheville on the French Broad River.  Since this was the first year for this show, it was a relatively small show, but with a wide variety.  Ceramists ranged from sculptors to studio art potters to functional potters.  My favorite of them all was Mike Hamlin.

I bought two pots from him.  These were small pots--a little over three inches tall each. 

The blue one on the left was inspired by an acorn.  The green one on the right was inspired by mid-century Scandinavian pottery.  Here they are keeping company with my Rose Cabat "feelie" pot.

Q: Why did the turtle cross the driveway?

A:  I don't know, I didn't ask him.


Eastern box turtle, Terapene carolina carolina, crossing the driveway.

 Turtle shell from the top.

 This one is a male.  He has red eyes and a concave plastron.

Turtle toes and tail.