I am obsessed!

I confess! I am obsessed with garden things right now. I think spring must be just around the corner. The buds on the redbud, peach, pear and apple are just starting to plump up on the trees in my garden. I am so excited. It has been a long cold winter for us here. OK I know you northerners have had a much harder winter. But hey, we had at least one whole week where the temperature was in the teens, ummm, at night. And we had snow on the ground for more than 12 hours. And I had to dig out my parka on more than 2 days. That's pretty darned cold out here in West Texas.

These are a few of the pendants and links that came out of the kiln this week. It's all sort of experimental at this point. I turned my leaf buttons into pendants and made daisies into pendants and links. And if all of this garden goodness wasn't enough, I made more clay models of flowers, pansies and something that started out a like a dianthus but ended up more like a zinnia (or something). Who knows where this will go. I may end up with an entire porcelain garden. Sort of like a ceramic field guide, only all of the illustrations will be entirely made up with almost no link to reality.