Additionally, I thought this blog may serve as a vehicle for a Classic Glass Studios "Catalog" of new work, work in progress, and inventory, in the form of photos with captions, etc. as clients are always requesting a "Catalog".
So here we go: Yesterday we traveled to Port Charlotte, Fla. to Tim Millers Studio. Tim is a Glass Blower, and has access to some very cool industrial dichroic glass. We first purchased glass from Tim in March 09'. Last summer I fired some up and put it in a "Starry Nights" transom and it sold immediately. Sherry fired up some draped masks and two female torso's, and some slumped bowls. The masks and bowls sold immediately, the torso's have not. I fired two 7.75" rounds, split them, and installed them in a large panel with chinchella dichroic accents in a SI100B surround. The large panel (24"X36") won the "Herman Melville Award of Excellence in Glass" at the Port Warrick Sculpture & Art Festival, in Port Warrick, Virginia. We have had great success with the glass, as it is unique and unavailable anywhere else. With this in mind, we thought we should purchase another load. Tim is great, and loaded us up with double the amount we intended purchasing, with the stipulation that we pay up the balance within 6 months. That is a big help!
We got home and Sherry started work on a commission while I planted pole beans, peppers and cucumbers. Earlier this week I planted a Macadamia Nut Tree, a Pineapple Orange and a Pomegranate Tree. We have had good rain, so all of the citrus trees are doing well. Sherry's bananas are doing gangbusters! We are fast running out of space, so we are becoming limited on what (and where) we can plant. I now have over 25 citrus, as well as bananas, papayas, passion fruit, star fruit, mango, macadamias, and veggies. The grapefruit will have a bumper crop this year and the tree is bending under the weight of all of the fruit. The trees and veggies all grow well here, as we say, if a dog messes in your yard, you can cover it up with dirt and 12 weeks later you have a liter of puppies!
One of the problems with growing fruits and veggies here in Palmdale are all of the varmints that want to eat the fruit and veggies here in Palmdale. We have a gaggle of raccoons, as well as an invasive fruit rat from south Asia (another story), opossums, bob cats, house cats, skunks, black bears, wild boars and pythons! Not to mention the occasional alligator. Our relative position adjacent to the Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area gives ample "wild lands" for the critters to return to every night. Our neighbor Tod photographed a (approx.)450 lb. black bear. The bear has only three legs. When asked to speculate on the missing limb, Tod suspects an intimate alligator encounter. One (a 200 lb'er) was hit and killed out on Rt.27 two weeks ago. Our other neighbor, Joanne, had a python in her garden (right down the street). These large reptiles are great for rodent control, but play havoc on pets. During our evening walk a neighbor on the Creek side of town told of "...a large cat, big as a dog, ran across the yard last night (fully lighted by security lights)...looked light a small panther...". So who knows... Palmdale is a wild place!
So today...Sherry continues on her commission and I will begin work on mine (an on going work for Nan Merrick). Sherry had a very interesting project, a 28"X28" stained glass panel that incorporates mementos from our clients deceased mother, ie: crystal wine glasses, depression era plates, and jewelery. A very exciting project, that she hopes to have completed before we depart for Holidays. The Nan Merrick's project I am working on involves a lot of vitreous painted elements that have to be kiln fired prior to incorporation into the panel. I had wanted to get all of the painting done, and the firing to be done in Maryland during the Holidays....we shall see. The panel is well over 8 sq.ft., and is titled "Fisheating Creek Egrets" taken from a prototype completed in January 2009. It will become a full install in an arched window. Their home is located on Vanderbilt Beach in Naples, and is beautiful!
Well, that is it for today. I am going to really try to continue this. Oh, last...low 60F hi 84F. I love Florida!
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