Next market: Saturday, July 28, at Northwest Crossing in Bend, Oregon

We had another lovely, sunny (mostly) day at Northwest Crossing’s Saturday Market. I brought new leaf platters and tea dishes — hot out of the kiln and warmed by the sun. Thanks to everyone who came by today!

I’ll be at the next market on Saturday, July 28 as well.  The pottery in the kiln is cooling as I write.

Saturday, July 14, 2012: Northwest Crossing Saturday Market

Last Saturday’s market was a hot one, literally! It was fun to hear people talk about the over-90 degree weather. Some were in survival mode and some were in their element. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to visit, share stories, or pick out a piece of pottery to make part of their home!

I’ll be at Northwest Crossing’s Saturday Market in Bend, Oregon, this Saturday, July 14. The market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be food, music, artists and even a petting zoo.

I’ll be bringing more ceramic pendants, platters and tea trays to the market this week – hot out of the kiln.

Cheers, Diana

Northwest Crossing’s Saturday Market, July 7, 2012

I’ll be at Northwest Crossing’s Saturday Market in Bend, Oregon, this Saturday, July 7. The market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be food, music, artists and even a petting zoo. Lots of people turned out for the market last week, despite the threat of thunderstorms. I think people were excited that market season is open again!

I’ll be bringing more ceramic pendants, platters, bowls and tea trays to the market this week.

Cheers, Diana

Northwest Crossing Saturday Market, June 30, 2012

I’ll be at Northwest Crossing’s Saturday Market in Bend, Oregon. The market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. I just unloaded the kiln and have lots of lovely, new pendants, soap & jewelry dishes, bowls and leaf platters. It looks like the weather will be perfect (sunny and in the 70s), and there will be live music, so drop by and say hello if you’re in the area!

Here’s a link to the farmers and artists participating in the weekly market:

http://northwestcrossing.com/amenities_events/saturday-farmers-market/

Cheers,
Diana

 

Opening the kiln

I love opening the kiln after a firing. Here’s what came out of the kiln this morning:

 

Baby Mountain Cottontail

This little mountain cottontail was having breakfast in our front yard this morning. Probably four inches tall, including ears. So cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!

Auroras from Space

MAJOR X-FLARE + CME UPDATE: Earth-orbiting satellites have detected a long-duration X1.4-class solar flare coming from a new sunspot on the sun’s eastern limb. The blast, which peaked at 1100 UT, produced a significant coronal mass ejection (CME). Using data from the SOHO-STEREO fleet of spacecraft, analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have modeled the trajectory of the CME and concluded that the body of the cloud will not hit Earth. A minor glancing encounter with the outskirts of the CME is, however, possible on Sept. 25th. [CME: movie, forecast track] AURORAS UNDERFOOT: Solar activity is picking up, and no one has a better view of its effect on Earth than the crew of the International Space Station. During a geomagnetic storm on Sept. 17th, astronauts recorded a must-see movie of auroras dancing underfoot: http://spaceweather.com/swpod2011/22sep11/media.mp4 Taken over the southern Indian Ocean, the movie spans a 23-min period from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT on Sept. 17. Note how the underbelly of the space station glows green from the reflected light of the auroras below. Also, in the distance, Sirius the dog star and Orion the Hunter can be seen rising feet-first into the night sky. The storm, which registered a moderate 6 on the 0-to-9 K-index scale of geomagnetic disturbances, was caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting Earth’s magnetic field. It was just a glancing blow, but with CMEs that is often enough to spark bright auroras over both ends of Earth. The space station was flying over the southern hemisphere at the time of the display. Observers in the northern hemisphere sawittoo.

House Rabbit Society: Rabbits Revisited, with Amy Sedaris

Click on the box below to see a sweet video about living with house rabbits:

Macaque takes own self-portrait

From:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011051/Black-macaque-takes-self-portrait-Monkey-borrows-photographers-camera.html

Cheeky monkey! Macaque borrows photographer’s camera to take hilarious self-portraits. The crested black macaque started snapping away with award-winning photographer David Slater’s camera at a national park in Indonesia.

Solstice Solargraphs

From: www.spaceweather.com

SOLSTICE SOLARGRAPHS: Last December, the staff of the Philippus Lansbergen Observatory in Middelburg, the Netherlands, invited members of the general public to join them for a solargraph-making party. A solargraph is a simple pinhole camera made from a soda or beer can lined with a piece of photographic paper. About a 100 cans were deployed around the observatory and, six months later, here are the results:

Each blue square shows the daily path of the sun across the skies of the Netherlands. The lowest arcs were traced by the winter sun of Dec. 2010. The highest arc was made by the sun just yesterday, June 19th, only two days before the 2011 summer solstice. Occasional gaps are caused by clouds.

“As you can see,” says a member of the observatory staff, “we had one of the sunniest springs ever in our province. It was even sunnier than in southern Spain!”

6-month Solargraph How-to Guides: #1, #2, #3