This morning I gave in to my fascination with the way dogwood trees leaf out in the spring. It seems as if every year I make sketches of the leaves springing up. There's something about it that really gets to me. Today I wandered around taking photographs. Maybe this is the year I finally make a bowl - or bowls - that follow the feeling of this leafing out. The dogwood leaves have such an upward thrust.
 This branch tip is still on the tree. I just held a small canvasboard behind it as a background so the leaves would show up better. Later it dawned on me that a regular photo grayboard might work even better. Sometimes the white background tricks the camera into making too dark an exposure.
After just a few moments taking photographs, I started to feel very happy. Later I went into the studio and tried my new drill bits. Wow! Drill heaven! Thanks to the metalworking news group, I now have spotting drills, sharp top quality screw machine bits (that are extra short, for greater accuracy), and great countersinks.
I'm working shorter hours this week because my family from Mexico is visiting - a rare treat. My son has lived in Mexico many years - almost twenty - and married into a wonderful family there. He and his wife have come with their younger daughter, to visit me and their older daughter who's on spring break from Tallulah Falls School nearby. My plan is to work most mornings in the studio, to keep up some momentum with bowlmaking. Tomorrow, however, we're going to the mall! The Mall of Georgia has two big bookstores, hence the exclamation point.
11:13:48 PM 
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