Scenery

[adriaan]

So you walk up some stairs in the middle of town ...

[David Houck]

That's pretty cool.  At first I thought it was an open air observation platform.  What's the thing in the center of the room?

[adriaan]

So it's a panorama that was originally sketched in open air, on top of a dune, by the artist standing inside the glass cylinder, marking the panoramic view on the glass that you see mounted on its easel, and a group of artists then produced the paintings on curved canvases working from the sketch. There's daylight filtering from above.

[pauldo]

😎

[hankster]

Ferry transfer at Mayne Island Tuesday evening.

[David Houck]

That's a nice sky!

[pauldo]

Thank you Richard, that’s beautiful.

[rv_bass]

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[adriaan]

Looking grand!

[David Houck]

Looks like a beautiful day to visit the capitol.

[cozmik_cowboy]

 Today we went driving along the south circuit of the DeKalb County Barn Quilt Tour.  Yeah, there's a thing around here called "barn quilts"; squares of quilt patterns that they paint on plywood & hang on their barns (inspired by the "hex signs" on Pennsylvania Dutch barns).


[A quick edit because I forgot to include the names of the patterns; they are, top to bottom, Arrowhead, Farmer's Daughter, Variable Star, Lone Star 2, Flying Geese, Drunker Passage, 8-Point Star, 4-Point Star, and Nordic Star] 

Peter

[adriaan]

Hm, wonder what they would look like as fret inlays? Thanks for sharing!

[edwardofhuncote]

Hmmm... barn quilts, so that's what those are. I'd been noticing them around here too, and just thought they were a 'new thing' to do to dress up an old barn. Did not know there was a deeper meaning. I'll look for a couple here in Mason's Cove.

[edwardofhuncote]

The maker's name escapes me at the moment, but I seem to remember a Japanese luthier who used colored wood marquetry for inlay. Not exactly like this, but the same kaleidoscope effect, Adriaan.


I might have to try something like that, myself. 

[rv_bass]

Those barn quilts are nice !