Renewing our bird feeder.

This bird feeder has been made by me in 2006. The original roofcover was birch branches.
After that long it now has to be renewed. The resident basic waterproof cover is a piece of pond foil.
Additional mesh wire and a few wooden strips made it easy to fix the decoration.
This time I have choosen pieces of oakbark and some moss.
It is ready now for the next decade ..... hopefully....

Off to the south ....

Today thousands of cranes started their journey.
Their route seems to go directly over our house, so I managed to get some pics.
Later on I visited the resting areas for a few shots.

Little Predator ....

Today this slow worm (Anguis fragilis) visited our garden.
It looks like a snake but is a legless lizard. What a wonderful creature!

A nice website

Here's a very nice website with lots of information about potterie that we like to show you.

julia galloway_____A POTTER'S BODY OF WORK 

Enjoy ....

Frogs

A few shots from our little pond. It's spawning period now.

An auction with our pots

Our beloved german forum the "Bonsai-Fachforum" wants to raise some money to finance and stay in touch with the technical future.
We wanted to help them and donated a few pots.
The first one is a nice oval from Klaudia.

Bonsaipots - Exhibition in Düsseldorf

Next weekend at the 25./26.02. Werner Busch's "Bonsaiwerkstatt"/Bonsai-Museum Düsseldorf will have its springtime exhibition.

The Bonsai-Werkstatt/Museum Website

The exhibition is mainly dedicated to bonsaipots.
A lot of pots from national and international potters will be shown.
Klaudia and I will be there too with some pots!
We will be pleased to meet you there!

A post about the Bonsai-Museum at the IBC

A post about the Bonsai-Museum at the german BFF

A little visitor ....

Today we had a nice little visitor at our birdseed-house .... a squirrel .
The walnuts must have attracted it ... and I managed to capture it on cam.

Winter is back .....

A frosty week and finally some snow today.
The wood is crackling in the oven .....
Some garden-pottery with next summer in mind ......
And a nice cup of tea...
How can you expect more !

A test with a "Moonstone" ....

I have found this little stone yesterday night. It was dark in the rain. Only the white ring was clearly visible.
I picked it up and it looked like a moon rising at a mountain. Maybe I  will make a daiza for it later.

Today I thought this would be nice to test our new "photo studio" setup. It has been rebuilt and upgraded.
The picture style will be different now, too.

Preparations for christmas......

A few days further and we will meet our family and friends.
As every year we enjoy the preparing to surprise them!
Everything is selfmade....nice little delicacies and presents.
While preparing we had a lot of fun !


This year Santa Claus will bring....
- Walnutliquor
- Plumjam with red wine
- Pickled quaileggs
- Pickled mushrooms
- Lots of cookies

;-) ... and someone will get a nice bowl. 

WELL....christmas may come.....

Welcome.....

This blog is mainly to share our way with pottery and bonsai.

First of all we like to introduce ourselves.

We are born in 1964 and married since the year 2000.
We live in Germany in the Osnabrück area in a wonderfull old house at the edge of a forest.
A dog and two cats are our companions.

We are interested in bonsai since 2001 and have about 40 trees ....mainly yamadori and home-grown.
There are also a few hundred seedlings and cuttings as we both enjoy the cultivating very much.
In 2006 Klaudia started to make bonsaipots, which is a very nice part of our live for both of us now.
Other interests we share are gardening, nature, fishing and photography.

Welcome everybody and please enjoy the upcoming posts....
..nice to meet you and kind regards.

Klaudia & Martin