Throwing a platter

Audrey from Square Pig Pottery shows how to throw a platter on the pottery wheel. 

Coffee Cup Bird Feeder

Audrey from Square Pig Pottery shows how to make her signature coffee cup bird feeder on the pottery wheel. 

Throwing a cone-shaped bowl on the pottery wheel

Audrey from Square Pig Pottery shows how to throw an Asian-inspired conical bowl on the pottery wheel.

Throwing a tumbler on the pottery wheel

Snow in Vegas

Medical mission in El Horno

We took media out to our humanitarian medical mission in El Horno Wednesday. Our medical team worked out there with a Honduran team Tuesday and Wednesday and saw about 650 patients. The village was only about five minutes away by helicopter, but it would have taken three hours to drive there -- it's up in the mountains. Some people walked more than five hours to see a doctor.

I didn't get many pictures of our people treating patients because I was escorting media and not there to shoot photos. I brought my little personal camera and did shoot a few photos of the people and the village.

This is a couple of boys looking in the window of the school where the doctors were treating some minor ailments.



I saw these three children waiting in front of the school.



This is a Honduran military doctor seeing some patients, and the next is a Honduran dentist extracting a tooth.




The dentists worked out of the village church.



Here's a few shots around El Horno:





And, finally, shots from the inside of the helicopter on the flight back to base:




That's the base outside the window on the photo above.

Back in Honduras

I traveled back from Vegas to Honduras yesterday and took a few photos of the ride on the bus to the base. I also learned an important lesson -- red eye flights suck. I should have taken a nap before I left at 1:55 a.m., especially knowing I would have to wait for the bus and then take the 90-minute ride.

Here's a shot of the airport from the bus.



Not too far from the airport, there are plenty of buildings long the route that look like this:



And yes, the traffic can get pretty thick in Tegucigalpa.



Here's one of the two accidents we saw during the trip. The road from Tegucigalpa sees a lot of accidents, usually not as minor as this one.