Garden Totem

A tradition that we’ve had for at least the past ten years is to host a dinner party for friends in December. Last night, we had the first such Christmas dinner party in our new home. To mark the occasion, one of our friends presented us with a ceramic totem pole for the garden. Gerda Grashuis is a potter, and she makes these totems herself. Ours is personalised, with drawings and sentences etched into the clay, giving a flavour of our journey through life to reach this point in time and space.

 

This morning, we selected the spot in the garden where we thought the totem should live, and Gerda and her partner Harich installed it for us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gerda, thank you! We both think this is wonderful. We can sit at our breakfast table, look across the garden and see the totem in the wood, just peeping through the trees at us…