The name "Fireweed" for our glass    business was originated by Cynthia's mother Doris Ellis after we returned from Pilchuck in the summer of 1987.  Both Cynthia and  I had our own art forms and Doris combined the word "fire" for my art of glassblowing with "weed" for Cynthia's dried  wild flower arrangements. Also the flower fireweed is the first flower to bloom on barren land after a fire.  It blooms in August in Colorado high country along the roadside.