Chipping Away "With Clay"

Bill has made 8 garden seats for the recent kiln firing which is a record number, while chipping at Leif's before dark. Using a commercial chipper, they have been clearing the front yard forest and using wood chips to mulch small trees. Five enormous dead trees will be cut to woodstove length logs and split for next winter's wood. Slowly a view of the house is emerging on it's 3.5 acres.

The studio; hand dug 18" deeper of clay. Hopewell dirt is mostly clay and we feel immersed.

I have planted 44 Ostrich ferns from my house in new back fields here, and bulk grass seed. 

This side yard was a wall of brush covering a collapsed horse barn full of debris with much more strewn all over. 

Ostrich ferns at home engulfing Bill's 5' sculptures now. Below is one in a greenware state.