Like
a lot of the rest of the country, the weather has not been exactly ideal here
and there are those times when I am certain I may never see sunshine again and
the past two days have been just that. Yesterday we had ice and snow with more
ice on top building creating a blanket of crusty ice across the region, but no
sun to speak of and today between intermittent icy rain and thick fog the day
has been bleak at best until for a brief few moment that sun poked through the
clouds and the resulting picture is the momentary result. I grabbed the camera
and took the shot just in time for the sun to disappear and then checked to see
if the camera captured what my eye had seen and luckily enough it did. Half
cloaked in darkness a chaire emerged from the shadows to reveal a wonderful
surface of ash with a rich bidoro drip reminding me of an ice coated rock face
in the midst of a spring thaw. This particular Shigaraki chaire is by the late
kiln and pottery master, Furutani Michio and was made sometime in the first
decade of his career. I have made a slideshow of the pot and will put it up at
another time but I thought for today, this image would suffice and would make a
dreary Wednesday just a bit brighter.
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