I love brown and earth-tone pottery, Dorothy. One of my absolute favorite mugs is a reddish-brown glaze with a dark-colored animal figure (a goat based on a rock painting from Arches National Park in Utah) on it by Ann Schunior. While everyone else was exclaiming over the blue mugs, I was going for the brown ones. The mugs with the African animal motifs are perfect with that particular color glaze, reminds me of the photos I've seen of plains animals in silhouette against African sunsets.