Day 7- back on the stone

 Red Whit and blue, (and green)

 Progress

Day 6 at Andres Institute

 On the way to Andres institute to meet up with good chums we found a yard sale. 

 And these are the most excellent chums, Susan and Russell who were my host family on my first visit, completely lovely people standing in front of my sculpture from 2011

 and the wonderful Bella!

It was so good to catch up with friends, see my sculpture, the new additions from other symposiums and a glorious meal with John and Nadiya Weidman

Day 5 in the quarry

No chipmunks! This is quite heartbreaking however as I carve I have tiny frogs hopping about beneath my feet and dragonflies hovering about all the time. Occasionally and not often enough, a humming bird which are exquisite. The woodchuck keeps a very low profile but he can just about be seen beneath the foliage. A swim in the quarry pool at the end of the day rounds things off.

day 4, looking up

A rainbow over the studio, it rained but not enough to stop play. The sound of the rain coming through the forest was beautiful

facial scrub

Being in the sun means factor 50 for my delicate skin. I have a canopy which means I am working in the shade most of the time but I need to walk around occasionally, I talk to the other artists, get a drink etc, so factor 50 it is, this needs topping up regularly. However by the time I have done 5 minutes carving I am covered in a fine layer of dust so putting on the sun cream gives me a facial scrub, some people pay a lot of money for that- maybe this rugged form of exfoliation could catch on.

day 3 in the quarry

  coming along with the carving, no chipmunks have been spotted so far but frogs and dragonflies everywhere and a humming bird popped by earlier.

  and a swim at the end of the day

frog days

 Saw this next to my stone, which Tamas says is a Kecskebka, or goat  frog in Hungary.

  still alive and then……

I ate tofu

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