Green, Blue, White, and Blue

Friday Fave Fives from Willow's Cottage.  Short because we're traveling.

1.  A birthday present was ordered in March and delivered this week.  A friend is a potter and made these BLUE bowls:

2.  Commercial blueberry season is over for the year. The Blueberry Lady called to tell us, "Come glean some berries."  So we did.  Sixteen quarts of BLUEberries frozen!

3.  Road trip!  I just can't post photos of California's Central Valley.  Too much drought.  So here are pictures of Mt. Shasta with WHITE SNOW!  That's Southern California's drinking water for next year.  And I love the view.  As I told The Professor, I probably have 100 photos of this mountain.  It never gets old.

4.  Until you've been gone for awhile, you don't realize how much you miss the evergreen trees. Warning:  over the next two weeks, there may be a plethora of GREEN photos at Willow's Cottage.

5.  That first hug.  When you haven't seen your only brother for a year, there's nothing else that comes close to the feeling of rightness and settledness of hugging him.

Willow's Cottage on a Tuesday

I have a new coffee mug!  The rule here at Willow's Cottage is one in, one out.  I've needed to replace one of my morning mugs which has developed a crack.  So I found just what I wanted at the potter's stall at Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest on Sunday.  All my favorite colors!  And yes, the coffee tasted great this morning!

You can never have too many photos of the California state flower!  These poppies volunteered this spring in my back garden.  I love the yellow and orange combo.

The delphinium is blooming its little heart out.

Pottery

An added feature of the Garden Tour on Sunday was the 'marketplace' at one of the homes. I am always drawn to pottery at any craft show. I love pottery and hope someday to take a pottery class. I know very little about the process of making pottery but it seems to me that the taking of EARTH and the shaping and 'burning' of it to create a thing of beauty and function is nothing short of amazing.

Paul Zikmanis of Mystic Bottle Pottery was showing his creations and I asked him if I could photograph them.

I'm not sure what kind of pots these are but the colors and glazes are incredible!

What a wonderful way to serve your favorite olive oil.

I think my son in law The Marine would like these to hold his wine bottles during a dinner party. I might use one as a coaster for my morning coffee.

Salt shakers

The Professor really liked these mixing/serving bowls. So did I!

Can you imagine mixing chocolate chip cookie dough in one? And putting your best bread recipe to rise in another? And serving a fabulous green salad in the biggest bowl? Oh! you could use the smallest bowl for the dressing!

If blue isn't your color, they come in green and brown, too.