Kentucky's state religion is basketball. It's pope lives in Lexington and has services at Rupp Arena; always has, always will be. Of course they want to rebuild the edifice. Change is good. I always try to think outside the 'sphere'.
Play ball.....
This early basketBALL form evolved from my workshop study in Brookfield, CT at the Brookfield Craft Center where Hisako Sekijima introduced me to the majesty of honeysuckle vine. Freshly boiled the wood within the vine glows green. Within a few weeks the vine is pasta white. Years later you have deep pine wood color to admire. Early egg gathering baskets in Kentucky were woven in honeysuckle where families passed down the craft. An invasive species, appearing almost everywhere in the bluegrass state, I continue to cultivate the vine as well as the other Asian invasive, akebia vine, often called the coffee vine in garden centers, which makes a pleasant window cover, shade producing arbor when you control its growth. Otherwise akebia may take over the neighborhood as does bamboo.
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