Again, credit to Sarah’s FB for the next photo:
That’s Son Aaron, and his daughter. The stream is in the valley below the Cathedral Ledge Lookout.
There isn’t any flatwater in this part of New Hampshire. So forget about paddling. Not much is flat at all, hey its in the White Mountains! They r noted as the most rugged Mts in New England.
Now it’s not positive where the name came from. But I’m going with the obvious: Snowy peaks.
WELL, HAVE YOU?? If you haven’t, you NEED to.
It’s fresh, picked daily M_Sat. Sunday is the day of rest.
You need to get there early in the morning. It’s put out around 9 am. And it sells out
E-v-e-r-y DAY!!
Zoom in close to the husked corn – It’s perfect!!
Now get u some, cook it up, LOAD on the butter and salt.
THERE, admit it, your life is so much better now.
Case closed, best corn in the ‘verse!!
Way too hot for hands
You got it ok??
Separated, its free!
Now we need sloooow coooling!
Safely inside
So the glass needs like a day to gradually cool down, they put it into this kiln that is, if i remember correctly, around 1000 degrees. If it was left out to cool, that would be way to quick and the thermal stress would destroy it. Anybody ever bust a glass or ceramic item by putting boiling water into something that was too cold? Ya like that but i guess u could say, in reverse.
So they also make lots of colored glass at Corning, here’s a shot of some
Anyway, working with glass is kind of amazing.
You can buy stuff like you see here from the Corning web site
I don’t know which of the glass you see there is made at Corning, I think some is. But they sell all kinds of glass stuff from all over the world. There is a 4th of July sale on now, with free shipping.
Corning – its all about glass!!!!!!
Get Ready!
Touchdown!!
Snipped off the right amount:
Forming it
Gravity Assist –
Both ends on
More forming
Voila! Handle!
Though i have given lots of pics, to see this done in person is really something special. Remember this guy is an apprentice, with 4 years experience. Just getting started in his skill-set. In fact just the show b4, these two dropped the project in a failed transfer – Shattered into a hundred pieces. I spoke to the learner after and he said this was his first successful pitcher. Awesome.
June 30, July 1 Little Falls. GO SEE IT
Anyway look as the master gets more glass ready
Now he joins onto the ‘bulb’ with his piece, our apprentice lines it up
Hey look here! now we detach from the original blowpipe, we have the piece by the other end!
Now reheat the piece, got more magic to perform
Now it time to pierce it!
Then he makes it wider
WIDER
Wider still –
The pear shape is gone! This will not be a big light bulb.
So did you go see the barge?? HURRY its traveling away!
This is a “Milk Snake”. Harmless and kind of pretty. What i cant figure is the name – What does this snake have to do with milk?
Unknown to me. if u have any info, please share.
Have a great day.
I tried to stitch it together into one large photo but the software i have used to do this before ( See this post, the panorama shot was stitched) would not work. i think becuz perhaps the one shot has the skeleton darker than the other. So i’m not pointing fingers, just wish i could make one large shot.
But u get the idea ya?
This is a replica not a real dino btw.
Here’s why they call the area Aspen:
These r aspen trees i believe. During Autumn the leaves turn beautiful golden yellow. They are taking a winters nap in this shot.
Lobby Fireplace
Nice room! The Viceroy if u r interested.
Where i live the mountains are not so high. I’m ok with that, and later this year i promise to get u some awesome shots of our mountains here.
Till then . . .