The fact is, I know more about horses and saddles than internet websites.

But it has come to my attention that as modern-day artists, our attendance here is both mandatory...and downright handy.

Hello. I'm Tim, and somewhere soon, as you make your way through our presentation, you'll meet my brother Chris and the rest of our crew.

Seems like just the other day I was a kid workin' my way through college. My oldest brother wanted me to become a lawyer and the next one down thought I should be an electrical engineer. So I studied dirt.

Yep. The College of Agriculture, University of Arizona. And I caught some kind of bug that switched my interest in soil science to a passion for landscape architecture. Next thing I knew, I was workin' for a construction company in Houston, drawing plans for swimming pools, and I had the fine pleasure of designing everything else that surrounded them--hardscape and softscape.

Here I am today designing and creating water features in copper and silver. Wouldn't you know my interest would be in the sound of the water as much as the beauty of the fountain?

So here we find ourselves all mixed up in art and architecture.

As I look back now, it took a long time to find the balance between the distance of the fall and the flow of the water that together became the song we sing in our Hot Metal Shop.

I hope some of our work finds its way to your home or office, indoors or outside.

One of the pieces you will see holds the sounds of a cattle ranch in Cochise County that once was my back yard. I know it so well, it calls me every day to tell me, "Come back home..."

You may have met me at an art show. You love one of our creations in copper and would buy it in a heartbeat if only you hadn't married that man of your dreams. Yep. It's much more than just you. You need to run this by him.

But P.S.--guess what? Forgiveness is way easier to get than permission. So c'mon girl: Just get it!