Golden Midsummer Bowl Viking We are celebrating the 200th

We are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Norwegian emigration on Restauration

which has been evolving since he made the first small ramekin bowl as a water dish for a friend's parakeet

I usually look for this kind of exuberance in the spring

As he goes into his 52nd year as a professional potter

Golden Midsummer Bowl Viking We are celebrating the 200thWe took this bowl from the kiln on a very hot June day just a week before the summer solstice, which is followed by the ancient Scandinavian celebration of Midsommar, on the eve on June 24, St. John the Baptist feast day on the Primstav. I did this design in 1990 after our return from studying Folk Art in Telemark, The days as long as they will ever be and filled with sunlight. Plants leap from the ground here in Minnesota, with bird song by 4 am and