Where I come from...

So by now, you all know that my Mom and her long time partner Tom (or Too as I call him, or Tú as Jax calls him) own a pottery studio and gallery in the middle of Minnesota. Last week, one of their customers decided to stop by – in their helicopter. They took mom up to see the neighborhood. She took some really awesome pictures….Mind you it IS the middle of winter so you are lucky you can see ground. The white building is the house. The big cluster of red buildings are the studio, gallery, kilm building, packing and shipping, the new garage (where Too keeps his Triumph) and the old garage. There is also the silo, the granary, and then the pump house (which used to be the self-service gallery back in the 90s before the new Gallery opened). There are many bodies of water in the pictures. The ponds near the house are the result of returning the 30 acres behind the Studio to their natural state about 10 years ago. A project they did with the Department of Natural Resources. The lake that is about a quarter mile behind the Studio is Todd. And the one on the other side that looks connected to Todd is Hook Lake. There is a swamp and a little gravel bridge between them. Hook is one of the larger lakes in the county and good for fishing. Todd is too small and doesn’t allow motors. But there are a few canoes available in the garage and you can take the truck or tractor down to the point and drop them in (although due to a moral opposition to Wal-Mart, I think we don’t currently have life preservers.)