Fellow Medalta Artist-in-Residence Claude Morin has updated his website with news of his busy June. There are photos of his excellent salt-fired and wood-fired pots. I am enjoying the dimpled salted rusty-orange tumbler he gave me from our last firing.

www.artancestral.ca

Here in Port Moody we’re having an unusual heat-wave but the basement studio is wonderfully cool. Today I attached handles to 5 miniature jugbirds and threw 4 more medium ones. Not much I know, but we’re also tackling outside painting jobs while it’s dry. The garden is all dried up. A swim in our nearby Sasamat Lake, White Pine Beach was just about perfect at 5pm.

I need the cooler weather they’re forecasting so that I am not tempted to be outside. The YVR airport Crafthouse yesterday ordered 8 more jbs .. now.

I wonder how the salt firings have been at Medalta..?