“Can I go with you?” or “I’ll carry your bags” is a refrain I often hear when someone learns I’m going to Italy for work. Traveling to Italy to buy terracotta pottery for our store sounds like a pretty good job, and it is when you don’t have to do it every other month. It’s…
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Groundskeeping: In a Glazed Daze in Italy
In a Glazed Daze in Italy: Glazed terracotta pottery From concrete planters to Italian terracotta pots, custom glazing has been one of Eye of the Day’s strengths for over fifteen years. We are sometimes amazed by the wild colors envisioned by one designer after another for special colors or finishes, but always try to provide…
Groundskeeping: A Letter from Portugal
Travel Dispatches: A Letter from Portugal It’s hard to say where I most like to be when my exploring takes me abroad. I like being where I’m familiar—definitely Paris and its arrondissements where I like to walk through the markets and bistros. In Bologna, I walk the miles of arcades looking at the architecture stopping…
Groundskeeping: Europe Expedition 2016
My Annual European Expedition This year I did something different, not only did my wife Suzi accompany me but my daughter Daisy and her husband, Greg, came along for the first two weeks. As I get closer to looking for some sort of exit strategy I’ve been thinking of why not blending our business with…
The Art of Building Large Terracotta Pottery
The Art of Building Large Terracotta Pottery In all my days of fascination with clay, there is one tool that I would call my tool of choice: the wheel. But the two things that have influenced me most are my teachers and my travels. Over the past thirty years or so I have had the…
Groundskeeping: Brent’s Eye on Austin
GROUNDSKEEPING: Austin, Texas Being from California, born and raised, I have always had a prejudice towards Texas. They were cowboys and we were beach people if not surfers. They like six guns and we like bongs, they eat TexMex and we eat real Mexican food. Girls in Texas have big hair and wear lots of…
