This grove is a block away from our house (three minutes.)
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Me, Taiko and Bamboo.
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Blooming plum trees.
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Rows of covered crops.
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Bamboo coming up through farm machinery.
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Old Datsun. You rarely see rusting junkers in Japan.
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Smaller bamboo. The leaves always have a soft feeling.
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"Gourd, Hanging in the Breeze, First it goes one way and then it goes the other" From Kurosawa's Ran (as best as I can remember.)
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Nuka pile
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Large bamboo cut this winter by a neighbor farmer.
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Went slow in the begining, because the plates were not totally dry. Bisque took 6 hours to cone 012 top near door. Everything bisqued fine. I try to go slow up to 600*C. After quartz inversion, I fire faster. from 600*C to cone 012 only takes an hour.
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Tsubo and some dish tests. Tsubo were dry but the plates went in damp. So I put them in upside down so the rims wouldn't dry first.
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