Happy Hanukkah! And other thoughts.

We're back at the project of photographing Sue's clay work, and it dawned on us that this year our Christmas will be only the two of us. Seth and I have planned for me to go exchange gifts with their family in their back yard on Christmas Eve afternoon if it's not pouring rain; Sue thinks maybe her sons and their children will drop a few gifts off on her front porch and wave to her through the windows, and she's mailing gifts to them or ordering gifts shipped to their houses. Our one rule is no Amazon. We're ordering from small local businesses. Normally Sue travels down to California to join her siblings for New Year's. Not this year. Covid-19 is raging through Portland. 

Fortunately, very fortunately, neither of us has lost anyone in our immediate circle to the virus. So we thought, well, if this is a holiday for the two of us, let's do something really different. Let's make elegant little dishes we love, just enough for two, and let's plan a day that is intentionally not like any others. We're brainstorming.

This little candle holder is about two and a half inches long and two inches high. We're also devising a filing system for her pieces. At the moment our photo file for this project has 189 photographs in it, and we're just getting started.