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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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  • Pot pie

    I make unremarkable but comforting pot pies out of leftover meat when we roast a chicken. When my brother was a bachelor I used to make extras for…

  • I forgot to post this…

    This was from the Toledo Potters Guild show at the University of Toledo’s Center for Visual Arts (on the grounds of the Toledo Museum of…

  • Old oven

    The fancy details have long since weathered off of my bread oven, but I still think it’s a thing of beauty with it’s smoky patina…

  • mud cracks…

    This is a close-up of the weathered surface of my bread oven. I love how organic patterns like this make you lose a sense of…