FAITH AND HOPE PLANTED

It's amazing to me that these apparently dry "onion balls" will pop up on their own schedule in Spring as Miniature Iris. Planting bulbs is for patient optimists.

SUMMER'S LAST SHOW

Not daisies but rather some kind of Chrysanthemum which reliably blooms every year. Sort of an end-of-summer bonus.

CRYSTAL LIMBS & ERMINE BRANCHES ARE LOVELY, but...

...I think I'd rather be turning.

TURNING SEASONS AND WOOD

The pleasures of two seasons at once--raking leaves while roses and geraniums bloom.

A late October early morning moonset.

Sure sign of summer's end: pots emptied, cleaned, ready for storage.

Beginning stages of a current project using figured maple.

SUMMER FINISHED PROJECTS--some are not

Perennial favorites

Simple shape turned out to be hard to achieve.

Maple bowl with burned rings.







Below is walnut bowl in its green roughed out condition.

Finished walnut bowl with deepened inside rim and ridged outside embellishment

Mahagony lidded box

A visiting friend at the annual Newfoundland Water Test Event

My first year to try yellow roses.









Spring trees were good for a short while.

Garden variety mix of annuals and perennials

TURNING SPRING

Unaffected by human calendars or time changes, these messengers of hope reliably turn into Spring and show up. Delightful!

BOXing--Round One

Here are results of the first session of a class on
Turning Small Lidded Boxes. So far I've turned this mahogany piece into round, created tenons, separated it into two parts, established edges for fit, and hollowed the lid.