Someone just sent me this picture of a plate of mine from probably 1980. It depicts Mt. St. Helens erupting, and the brown ash cloud in the sky is really ash from the May 18, 1980 eruption. I would glaze these plates just as I had been doing with similar ones depicting Mt. Rainier for years, then I would apply a pile of the dry ash on top of the glaze with a salt shaker. For about a year after the mountain erupted, I couldn't make these fast enough. The next year I could sell a few, and after that no one has ever wanted one again.