Floral Platters

Winter has me craving flowers and color so I decided to make a couple of floral platters. You'd never know that this plate was wiped clean and made again. I'm using a combination of stains and underglazes.

Hope everyone is surviving the cold and snow. We got what amounted to nothing. One of these days I hope we get a winter wonderland. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.

The Fells, Newbury New Hampshire

Come along with me on a tour of The Fells, an early 20th century summer estate overlooking Lake Sunapee. The Fells was the summer retreat of John Milton Hays and his wife Clara. Hays was the private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln during the civil war and the Secretary of State to President Theodore Roosevelt. The Fells is named after the Scottish word for rocky upland pastures.

The colonial revival buildings were designed by architects George Hammond in 1891 and Prentice Sanger in 1915.

This season the gardens are filled with numerous outdoor sculptures.

This sculpture looks exactly like a granite rock suspended by the poles. The same artist created the sculpture below.

The Fells is located in Newbury, New Hampshire. More than eighty acres are filled with gardens and hiking trails throughout the pastures and forests. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.