Salmon, Glaze Recipes, and Cool

I always end my vacation to Seattle with a grilled salmon burger from Anthony's Restaurant in the Seattle airport.  I highly recommend it.  If I remember, I order rice instead of fries.  Forgot this time, but brought this onto the plane.  Best lunch at the end of vacation that I could find!  

 First, here's a couple glaze recipes I liked from a past edition of Ceramics Monthly.  I spent part of vacation looking through old magazines gleaning words of wisdom.  Was reminded that Ceramics Monthly doesn't go out of style.  Hope to try these Cone 6 glaze recipes.  Save your Ceramics Monthly if you subscribe!  I'm thinking of putting in a subscription...

 Hard to believe that less than two weeks ago, I was in weather this cool.  High of 65 most days and as low as 30 one night.  Loved the weather, place and people!  On this particular Friday it was overcast on Lake Chelan and well, just beautiful!  The place I visited was only accessible by boat and no cell phone coverage-- and lots of untouched nature all around.

 Like the look of this glaze test tile chart.  I plan on creating my own in my studio.

 Here is the studio I worked in.  It's built on the bottom floor of a huge building--- and with part of the roof sloping down like that.  Has excellent lighting--- with windows at each end and all along the one wall.  It was just beautiful.  Some nights I'd be trimming pots when it was cold-- and well, the deer were outside as if spectators who had come to watch.  The deer would come to visit at dusk.  Love this connection to nature.

Went on a couple hikes.  It was late June, yet the winter had been quite cold and full of snow (323.5 inches in all).  This is in the midst of a 10 mile hike.  I'll post the snow pic in the next blog post.  Here's what it was like about 1/3 of the way up.  (2100 ft. elevation change)  When life is challenging, I take my mind here in the midst of beauty that is too beautiful to put into words.  Thanks for taking the time to read this!  Oh, and I'd love to have some glaze measuring advice--- anything to keep in mind when looking at a glaze recipe and when you're getting ready to measure the dry ingredients?   I need to research this some. Thankfully, I'm beginning to feel better from dental surgery and I'll have some time at the end of this week to figure this all out and mix some glazes.  Will post some more pics of vacation later too.