Composting Gratitude

morning sun © samos 2012

 

I was reading my friend's blog this morning and was reminded how fortunate

 we are to live in such beauty.

I'm surrounded by tall pinon pines, the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, and

of course all our critters.

 

Lumpy saying hi

our Lexi girl

Neo eating breakfast

 

* (Daisy and Oscar didn't want to participate in picture taking today.)

 

 

As most of you know, I love gardening! I am by no means anything like my father who is an AMAZING gardner, but I like to dabble... I've had a small vegetable garden for the last six years and I'm finally ready to get a little more serious. By serious, I mean I need to start composting and get that darn green house built! Anyways, yesterday my parents stopped by for lunch and then Dad and I  built my compost bin! I've been needing to do this for quite some time and just haven't got around to it...

 

 

compost bin out of pallets

the corner that i enter to tend to the compost

 

It is a very easy bin to build. We used FOUR wood pallets that my husband salvaged from work. Each one was tied together with wire and then we used twine for the gate. After we finsished, we decided that we could have used twine for all the corners but the wire worked fine. Now that the bin is made I can start adding organic scraps from the kitchen: coffee grounds, unused fruit and vegetable skins, eggshells...oh, don't forget about the aged horse manure. No shortage of that around here!

 

Do you have a compost? I'd love to hear about it!

 

 



Art Making Break

curvy tree

I'm away from the studios for a few days, so I'm not doing a lick of creating except I have my camera close by for everything and anything that I think deserves recorded. Needless to say, I've already taken well over 200 pictures and recharging my battery as we speak.

This morning I found my way to the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center. I walked the trails and saw beautiful trees, lots of birds, squirrels, butterflies and a turtle! Towards the end of my walk, I came to an overlook which was marked the Buffalo Bayou. I'm a Colorado girl and don't travel much south. So I am not used to seeing these gorgeous trees and swampland like forests. But I'm definitely not used to seeing a sign like this:

gator sign



 Tomorrow I'm off to the museum district!  Until next time....

Have a wonderful week!

samos

Lost in Translation

As I look back on what I've been doing or should I say, the lack there of lately, I am beginning to feel like I'm finally catching up with myself. Moving away has been good to me. I am finding time to do the things I like to do, but never made time for. Funny how nature brings you back to reality.

I have been throwing quite a bit lately. I have turned the breezeway into a pottery studio. And since D has created quite the workshop in our enormous garage and needed my workbench, he made me a new one for the studio. And it is already filled with pots, a plaster, glazes, tools, etc. Oh, and I found out I really can throw. I just need to use more clay if I want bigger pots! Hmmm.

Books I've been reading:

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Practical Potter by Josie Warshaw

Among Wild Horses by Lynne Pomeranz