dsglass' photos

works in progress... as usual, working down to the wire before opening my house/studio for the local art tours - kiln should be cool enough to unload around the time people start showing up at my house. :D

took a break from glazing to play-test some new pendant bails...

Rango enjoying a lovely fresh-picked salad. :)

Sophie took her new summer shoes out for a test-run at school the other day. :)

Rango's finally awake! :) He came out of his burrow mid-afternoon on 5/2, basked in the sun, ate a bunch of mulberry leave and some flowers, and took a stroll around his garden before heading back home. :)

Crappy tablet-pic with crappy hotel lighting. :D But my first faceting project! :)

Crappy tablet pic, crappy hotel lighting. Hader to see the facets in this one, but a better image of the inside of the marble... Looking forward to experimenting both with my new faceting tool and with photoraphing faceted glass marbles. :)

Brown-eyed primrose (Chylismia claviformis)

Desert sand verbena (Abronia villosa)

Spotted in the wild! :) Recently I participated in a tortoise habitat plant survey/trash cleanup event; he's the only tort we saw, but we found a number of burrows, and lots of signs of tortoise activity (half-eaten plants, poop - some recent, some well-aged from last season. :D ). We also saw some birds and lizards (mostly just a flash of tail as they scampered away), and *tons* of wildflowers - with all the rain we've had this year, spring is getting off to a good start! :D

Tortoise biologist checking out the tortoise we spotted. :)