{"id":88,"date":"2009-09-29T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-09-29T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:03:00","slug":"beautiful-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/beautiful-morning.html","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Took the dog out this morning for a walk. It rained all day yesterday and still cloudy and misting a bit today, may be in for more rain this evening. Anyway, cool and subdued, the low clouds hang in the valleys and the treetops like a soft blanket. When it’s early and like this, it’s almost like the outside world is muffled, and the immediate is drawn into tighter focus. It has the wonderful rain smell and the flowers stand out in the lush green. The dew brings all of the spider webs into view, really shining in the patches of sun that come through. All in all, a great morning to make good pots.
\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>My neighbor’s old home. The land is all that remains now, and from the size of this little island of land surrounded by rice fields, I don’t see how a house could have fit there. I’ve been meaning to ask them about this. To give perspective, the hydrangea in the right of the picture is about 5-6 feet high. The old pots have been sitting there in the same place since I moved here 5 years ago, and I imagine they’ll be sitting there much longer. People use these pots for various things, from grain storage to oil and drink storage, to pickling, to human waste containment (which was later used on the fields for fertilizer).
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I love this persimmon tree. Looks like a bonsai (with fruit and leaves actually to scale) to me. The persimmons are ripening now and the leaves are starting to fall. My neighbor has a very tall persimmon and uses the old method of getting them down. He cuts a piece of long bamboo(24″ plus) and splits the small end so it’s open a 1\/4 inch or so. He can then stick it up under the stem of the fruit pinching it in the split end. Give it a twist and the fruit comes free, but doesn’t drop and smash because the stem is scissored between the split ends of the bamboo. Pretty clever.
\"\" <\/a>A nice little dew covered flower. These were popping up everywhere at the edge of a field that used to have a house. I suppose whoever lived there before planted bulbs, and they’ve been coming up ever since, even though the people are long gone.
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I’ve posted a couple more pictures of the accomodations I’ve negotiated for the kiln building workshop next October. These are posted at: <\/p>\n

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