Dark Winter, Portland Maine

I would like to share some photos with you. I took these on a walk with two friends you may notice in the images. This is winter in Maine.

Thanksgiving Break 2012 pt. 2

Heading further North I continued to part two of break. My canine friend had patiently waited to see me along with my cat who is still the boss in his old age. The day after Thanksgiving we harvested a tree which is somehow still a cultural shock evening though I'm a raised Unitarian (now a Buddhist -not a huge jump.) 

It was nice to see that my mum and Paul had made some major progress on fixing up the old farmhouse. I look forward to when they get their studio running in the barn.

Camden

Docks out for the winter.

Thanksgiving Break 2012 pt. 1

It snowed at Pine Lake, suddenly it was time to return home for a few days.

After a weekend of wheel throwing (the deadline for wet clay work was right before break,) I loaded up the electric kilns for a bisque firing and left with dry, cracked, occasionally bleeding hands -luckily they quickly recovered.

At home I got to admire Oliver's basement museum of high school art and got really excited to see what was going to come home from San Francisco 

I had patiently waited three months to see the ocean, this is at Wolfe's Neck State Park, I'm always amazed by how incredibly clean the ocean is on the Maine coast. For some reason, this broken coastline has a different feeling unlike any other.

I made this piece I call Pagoda, it's constructed of discarded railroad bits left behind when the track near my house was repaired for passenger trains to run on.

Summer so far...

Summer has been interesting so far. A lot of it has been running around trying to get my shit together before I move both in Maine and go on another adventure in 10 days. On my birthday (I turned 21?) I went up to Camden Maine with me Mum and Paul to check out so potential houses. We may have had some luck, we'll find out soon.

View of the harbor from standing on the library

Camden Harbor

Poppies.

The swaddled dog. I'm not sure what she lets me do this.

But maybe it's because I buy her love with walks.

I've also been hanging out with this dude a lot. We may or may not have been doing a bit of this some evenings. It's been fun. I'm not sure why I took this photo, but the angle is interesting. Also, it's my last bit of time with him until pretty much Christmas since I won't be around for the rest of the summer. He will be going to San Francisco Art Institute this fall.