Oribe pots and Kiwi, the Red fronted Kakariki

Hello everyone!
It was a very cold day. Maximum temperature was 3-4 degree. They say it is getting colder.

Here are my two green pots. Left one is a new one, which I have collected today, and right one is last year's. I am happy with them! The glaze colour is so pretty, like a gem! Tommorow I will take better photographs of them and all the other pots that came out of a kiln, if there is any daylight to speak of.
  

My green Oribe pots taken at night

My name 'Midori' means phonetically 'green' in Japanese. And you guessed right, green is my most favourite colour. I have always loved this dark deep green.

The most beautiful green I have ever seen was on my beloved kakariki, Kiwi. He was a red fronted kakariki. He had shiny bright but deep green plumage. I had never tired of his beauty. We had taken lots of photographs, but the photos did no justice to his beauty. I loved him dearly, as much as I could ever love anyone on the Earth.

Meet Kiwi:  http://www.takaki1.freeserve.co.uk/kiwi.htm

Kiwi, the red fronted kakariki, and twitter

Brooch in the memory of Kiwi, the red fronted kakariki

I have never imagined I will start Twitter. Never say never. I started using email in 1992 when nobody I knew except for those in the University of Kent, had individual address. Then I started building my own website on our birds in 1998. At that time, there weren't various templates so I designed wallpaper etc. from scratch. I continued until 2002, then my beloved Kiwi the Kakariki died, and I lost interest in whole world for a while.

Kiwi photo: Mike 2001

Blogging was just starting at that time, but I have never taken it in until this year. Now I became a lady with certain age, I decided to catch up with everything! Because of my day job, I am up to date with new technology development and next big things. I even invested in the company with search and cloud computing. So I knew quite a lot about them, but I didn't know how to use them. I am not going to be an old woman who is behind the times. I fear that if I don't catch up with new things now, it might become too much and too late when I am really old.

So here I am with Twitter account @MidoriTakaki