Heron and hail

Last week i finished the tiles. Here they are. Some of the colors did not come out as i hoped, but they are good enough. I think it will look nice when Scott attaches it to the wall where the banister use to be. It will save him the effort of repairing the damage from the removal of the old banister.

The stair remodel has been dragging on due to salmon fishing. Scott hopes to catch one soon and there is only so much time do it in, so the stairs fall to the back burner.

The weather today is crappy typical Portland weather. i had hopes that i could do a bit of yard work today. I wanted to put in some edging on the back 40 and plant some shade plants there in front of all the rhododendrons, but no, too cold and wet.


At least this weather is an improvement of the bazaar stuff that fell from the sky last week.
It would be sunny one minute, big fluffy snow falling the next, and ultimately tons of hail or freezing rain. that is spring (or nearly so) in Portland.

Even though it is technically not spring, i call it spring as soon as the daffodils start coming up.

Glass tiles continued

It is now starting to look like something. I have done some colors. I think about five firings now. A few of the colors will change.
Today i worked on the green of the cat-tails. I did the sun a bit more orange, and I did some grey on the heron. It is all starting to come together.

The seed starting heating pads (warms up the soil) came today. so will be clearing some space and setting up my seed starting area in the garage. This is also where i work on my glass. To continue to do both seed starting and glass i will clear another area out in the garage where i can continue to work on these tiles.

Glass tiles in the works

Scott asked me to design a piece of glass work to go on the wall near the stairs where the old banister connected to the wall.

His suggestion was a blue heron. This is the design i have come up with. I have been working on this for a couple of weeks. The weekends is the only time i can work on it because i am tired after my long day at the office.

I have to do multiple firings so i can only do one or two colors at a time.

Garden related news - i planted some tomatoes seeds indoors along with a couple of other plants that need to be planted at the same time. Outside i have planted my peas.