Trilliums

I have been thinking about our upcoming trip back to Tennessee with great excitement. Mr. Metalology and I were just back in our beloved Smokies in early April, to celebrate our birthdays and do some hiking. We were so lucky to see the trilliums in bloom all over the rocky hillsides.  It is my favorite wildflower, and nothing beats seeing it covering the ground in my favorite places.  

I came home with the idea to attempt to make a trillium flower in sterling silver. I hammered out a couple of different prototypes and was pleased with the shapes and forms, but nothing can capture the natural beauty of the real thing. Still, I try...

So our next trip to the Smokies will be the third week of June, and we are renting a mountain top condo to share with Mr. Metalology's sister and her family. It will be great, because when we are together there is lots of laughter. There will undoubtedly be hiking; hot, sweltering summertime hiking with bugs and possibly snakes. But there will surely not be the peace and quiet that we so enjoyed in April. The trails will be more crowded with tourists. The mosquitoes will be buzzing in our ears. But best of all, there will be the laughter of memories being made. 

I hope I come across something else that will inspire some more metalwork, that will mean that long after the trip is over I will still be reliving it at my workbench.