Garden Tour

We had a nice weekend. Saturday Warren worked on the Log cabin quilt-deck.

He got his first block completed & is anxious to do the rest now. This is the FUN part!
Sunday it rained, & was a good day to take a stroll. We got about a 3 mile hike in, with umbrella in hand, & went to the Outdoor Art Show at the Botanical Garden.
There were 60+ vendors, showing their stuff. I loved this little potting table,

& these architectural birdhouses, but we were on a mission.

There were, of course, lots of flowers. These are the columbines that grow wild around here.

I loved the yellow foxtail grass in this garden.

The smell of the wild Sitka roses were Heavenly.

Forget-me-nots, are the Alaska state flower.
I love daisies.
This arbor was made by Brenda Milan, one of my favorite Anchorage artists. Brenda has been doing trellises with willow & copper wire for a LONG time. Her art has been copied by a lot of people. She also does fantastic metal works.

I thought this bird was great too, though I'm sorry I didn't get the name of the artist.

This fancy fused glass bird bath was pretty. The gal that made this also had a little Bistro set that we are very interested in. We will probably have her make one for our deck once we get it together. She asked I not take a picture of it though, so you'll have to wait until we buy it!

Her name is Laura Mendola.

This piece below is FELTED WOOL! By Lucy Zercher. Isn't it a HOOT?!!

Below is Paul Dungan. He was our "mission".

I had bought this sink for our master bathroom from Paul, & warren liked it so much he had gone & given Paul money for another sink, to put in his bar, last October when we were in Homer. Later Warren found a hammered copper sink that he liked better for the bar (it seemed safer for the sink to be non-breakable). He called Paul & cancelled the order, & told him to NOT refund the money, we would buy something else from him the next time we saw him.

These stumps have nothing to do with Paul, I just love stumps....

well Paul maybe likes them too, because here's one he made for the garden (no we didn't buy it).

He also made this piece he called the Cairn, (I thought it was funny because it looked like a pile of giant moose droppings to me).

This is what we got from Paul. A platter that I loved. A bowl that matched, so Warren said we needed it, & 8 wine glasses with pottery stems, so the next time someone wants a glass of wine here they can have it in a real wine glass. Auntie Ethel had broken all of our wine glasses, before she'd moved out. Not intentionally of course. She just had shakey hands.

Speaking of Auntie E, we visited her after dinner, if you want to see how she liked her book, look here.