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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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    This was my most ash-blasted pot, right from the firemouth.

  • Big amphora, bottom side

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  • Firing Journal: The rest of the story

    After my last post, Iput away the laptop. It was dark, and cold, and I had short of spent myself on blather for the evening.…

  • The wood kiln, March

    No, you don’t need to adjust the brightness of your monitor. It doesn’t get any lighter grey in Northwest Ohio/Southeast Michigan in March.