A Magical Frost

A Winters welcome

   Here in the fens the world is covered with the magical sparkle of morning frost with the sun bringing out every ice mirror giving the garden a coat of crystal, so raw is winter's welcome this morning, the mild damp weather of autumn gone for another year.
   It was another early start for me with cold hands I opened the barn, cold and dark yet there ready to make my day another happy one, my little glass haven where dreams and ideas are thought through and success and failure run hand in hand, my safe place where I can forget the world and her problems, lost in my love affair with my flame.
   No winds this morning so still the trees are, soaking up the sun as if it was their last, most bare now with there golden jewellery laying beneath forming carpets to every path in the garden and that huge still blue sky hangs above us with not a single threatening cloud.
   It's a mixed day ahead for me, beads to clean and photograph with listing to be made this afternoon and also a few hours in the clay room call with pots to throw and ideas to try out. When I started to play with ceramics I really didnt imagine there were so many avenues and options to be found in one medium, ideas fill my head and I will never have enough time to try them all, but I'm sure I'll manage to give some a go, I know some results will be unpopular but maybe a few will please some and that will make the effort worth while.
   Well maybe if I'm lucky I'll get to have another bonfire this afternoon as the wind is so still so won't effect any neighbours with smoke, fingers crossed as I really need to get more burnt out the way.
   Just one more thing before I get on, if Claire Sage reads this blog could you plaese email me on upwellsell@aol.com  since I changed my email I lost a lot of contacts and I would like to email you to thank you Claire for Christmas card, I'll keep my fingers crossed.