Solvang Windmills
Solvang sits in the Santa Ynez Valley, about an hour north of Santa Barbara and a mile from the old Mission Santa Inés. Danish-American educators founded the town in 1911 as a settlement around a folk school, and over the next century its half-timbered architecture and four working windmills became part of the daily street. The sails turn slowly in the valley breeze. Bakeries along Mission Drive still pull æbleskiver and kringle from the back ovens before the morning bus tours arrive. Above the rooftops, the Santa Ynez Mountains hold the southern horizon, and the rest of the valley spreads in oak savanna and vineyard out toward Buellton and Los Olivos.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.