-- It started with vintage corkscrews, but soon antiques dealer Jim McCormick was buying lab equipment from the 19th century, cast-iron grape crushers from some of California's oldest wineries and copper
smudge pots from another era.
The larger of the 'cloud' sculptures, Origins, struck me as less imaginative than the wall works, yet it still provoked all kinds of associations--from a pile of
smudge pots to a bubble cluster--and at the same time was fascinating in its details: split edges, twisted skin and other texturing.
Create a smokey eye effect with Stila
smudge pots (PS13).
Sometimes, during cold snaps, the entire Detering family would stay up all night to keep the
smudge pots lighted and save the crops.
It also does not have a wind machine, and most orchards no longer use kerosene filled
smudge pots to burn to warm the trees.
These include burning
smudge pots to produce warm smoke, running wind machines to move the frigid air, and spraying water on the plants to form an insulating coat of ice.
From a dark kitchen the speaker watches his father checking the weather fearing their crop will freeze while sprinklers cast "their drops as if from the hands of priests" and "the
smudge pots flicker / faceless jack o' lanterns strewn across the fields."
Manea says they are also considering using sunflower oil in the
smudge pots used to protect orchard crops from early freezes.
The remaining 15,000 tons of coal were later sold to tramp steamers and local citrus growers for
smudge pots.
Play opens on the estate on a night when
smudge pots are burning due to frost and I Kovrin returns on a visit after years away studying.
I noticed in my years of driving truck that orchards on the west coast have "
smudge pots" to help heat the orchard.
The section entered the target area from the west at 6,100 feet, identified the target (two
smudge pots appearing as a single-point light source) and circled the target once to set up for a 360-degree final attack heading for practice 30-degree dive deliveries.