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January 12, 2012 | Pattern of the DAY

Banksy eat your heart out.  Seen all over Arezzo

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October 22, 2011 | Pattern of the DAY

Craggy Cornish wall.

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August 29, 2011 | Pattern of the DAY

Chestnut trunk covered with lichen beards in Tuscan wood.

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October 10, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

We did end up buying a carpet on the recent Syrian trip.  Or it might be a rug or a kelim.  I know that quantity of knots per square inch are the acid test.  Any way here it is, a  lovely object from Tabriz in Iran. The man on the right is the carpet [...]

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October 5, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Hebe rakaiensis is sturdy and a stalwart evergreen small shrub that can behave in the box ball manner.  Standing in  for a less harsh form of topiary, the fresh green leaves grabbed my attention yesterday.  It’s a good shrub for the small garden but needs to be kept pruned so that it [...]

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September 17, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Eighteenth century looking glass with embedded lenses.

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September 5, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

The lovely phyllotaxy of the nettle.  Leaves are arranged in opposite pairs to catch maximum sunlight.

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August 15, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Mosaic floor of bedroom, Hadrian’s Villa.

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August 8, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Bare wattles, unplastered,  on Sussex barn.  Exposing the bones of a timber-framed building.

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July 22, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Designed in 1936, this is the gateway to the Spider Garden, Hoveton Hall, Norfolk.

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