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July 15, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

An abstraction of rusty bedsprings.

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July 6, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Indentured vegetables.

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June 12, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

This is a detail of the main door, St Maurice, Angers.  In the heart of the ancient Angevin Empire, this 12th century cathedral has a window dedicated to Thomas Becket.

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May 31, 2010 | pattern of the DAY

an intimate look at the stem of the monkey puzzle. Why exactly was the monkey puzzled?

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May 20, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

early 14th century church roof

Scissor-braced, seven-canted roof constructed round about 1330 at Westhall church, Suffolk.

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May 15, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Lovely ploughed field in Suffolk.

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May 8, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

a detail of Fulani cloth – someone told me it was a bathmat for a tribal elder but that might be pure wishfulness.  Same source, material given as woven bark.  Cameroonian.

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May 4, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

The lovely leaves of Heuchera ‘Chocolate Ruffles’ .  Try it with Alchemilla mollis. The leaves complement by similarity in shape and there is  a perfect colour contrast.

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April 28, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Cosmati floor, S. Crisogono, Rome

Part of the  13th century Cosmati pavement in San Crisogono, Trastevere, Rome

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April 24, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

patterned brickwork at Okenhill Hall

A swatch of magnificent Tudor brickwork at Okenhill Hall – this is where I went today instead of tending and tilling the vegetable  plot.

The house is fabulous – apparantly in the Domesday book, the garden and woods tasteful and superb and the sandwiches and cakes, the stuff of dreams.

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