Dark Morning

First Winter Morning


   I was up early this morning watching those dark heavy rain clouds rushing over the fens heading towards the East Anglia coast, the first of those winter mornings when I love to sit in the warm and watch the dawn, slowly the darkness makes way leaving those dark skies above.
   Those quiet wet mornings when the odd car passes taking those who have to start early to work, those mornings when I'm happy to be sitting in the warm writing this blog with a hot cuppa while looking out upon the wet fens where the raw winds cause those leaving home to wrap up warm, it's that late autumn season when those golden paths of leaf carpet country lanes all over Britain and that smell of late afternoon bonfires fill the air.
   Today I will empty the bisque firing from last night only to replace those pieces with more this evening or tomorrow evening, this I hope means a busy weekend glazing items ready to list, bowl sets, goblets and I hope the first few egg cups will be among them.
   The fact that weekends such as the this one come along where I get to enjoy myself finishing off new pieces helps me cope with the every day struggles that just seem to be here every week now, the excitement of opening the kiln to find out how glazes or designs look is a great feeling and one that I hope to experience for a long while yet.
   Back to work for me now, I'm on my torch making more sets and a few focal beads today, later this afternoon I'll be on my wheel throwing a few more smaller pieces, I'm now on my last bag of clay so I'm guessing next week will be a wheel free one, maybe I'll spend some time on beads and pendants.