Miniature Korean Pottery

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Windy Ridge Farm, Indiana

Today I visited Windy Ridge Daylily Farm in Hillsboro, Indiana along with a couple of friends that I met in my master gardening class this spring. The grounds were just lovely--seems like it would be a thoroughly enjoyable business venture! We spent some hours there strolling through the rows of hundreds, if not thousands, of different daylilies. How I ever narrowed my selection down to just three, I'll never know. There were some other wonderful varieties that I had to place on my wish list, as they were quite spendy. Some that I wanted were upwards of $25 or more just for a small division to get you started. Nice thing about divisions is that they are something that can be shared between gardening friends at no charge---you just have to wait until the plants are big enough to divide.

The ones that I selected this time were S. Ury Winniford, Royal Charm and Jungle Beauty. You can see all of my daylilies in my Garden Journal.

Oregon Coast

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Stalagmites and Stalagtites

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Baltimore Oriole not Oreo!

We are fortunate to have a rainbow of colors when it comes to birds around here. One that I really enjoy is the vibrant orange of the Baltimore Oriole. This guy that showed up at my hummingbird feeder was quite the clown. He stuck around for awhile working on that nectar...doing his acrobatics. He didn't seem to mind me right on the other side of the kitchen window, snapping away with the camera. This was great, because usually when I see an Oriole, they would make a speedy exit for a distant tree.


This guy was curious enough to inspect me through the window.
I think I'm in LOVE with this handsome fellow!

Psanky at Home

After learning the basics and struggling through with the traditional Kistka in my lesson, I had learned two things. First of all, that I really LOVE Psanky! and secondly, that traditions are wonderful, but I am going for the ease of an electric kistka. I ordered my tools and all of the dyes that I wanted online through the Ukranian Gift Shop which is THE place.

Here is my goldfish done on a brown egg from one of my 'girls';
what I consider my first work of Psanka art:





I am really pleased with the end result, but there are several things which I would do differently. This design is really meant to be displayed and viewed horizontally. In the future, I will keep the designs vertical with the point of the egg upwards.

Also, I will be more careful about making the background line up the way it should. The lines of the waves and the fish net do not meet up as they should if followed through.

Psanky Lesson

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