And just in time for next week’s visit.
Machine pieced and machine quilted, for durability and washability when absolutely necessary. It features bright kiddy prints and others, plus hand dyed fabric frames around each block, and a thanksgiving-harvest theme print on the back. 
Quilt for grandson #3 completed
January 5th, 2006
Architectural oddities section: a magnficent folly perhaps ?
January 4th, 2006
A new holiday house was noticed at Jose Ignacio last week. Indeed, you could hardly miss this one. They say travel broadens the mind, but sometimes I think people bring back the darndest concepts from their travels; and in this case, IMHO, someone spent serious time in the presence of ancient Roman aqueduct ruins somewhere. Many Europeans now spend vacation time in this area of Uruguay at this time of year, perhaps this is to remind someone of home.
The actual house is two levels; there were people lounging on the patio so I didn’t like to intrude with my camera – although I am tipping I will be only one of many to photograph the amazing, eye-catching, puzzling but certainly grand, exterior of this house this season.
You can see an umbrella just between the columns towering above the centre and right pots, and between those same pots themselves just a hint of the lower part of the house. Now, a structure like this deserves a sweeping parkland setting, perhaps a low but expansive grassy knoll. A decent bit of earthwork would have really enhanced the imposing quality of this structure, but look where they put it…
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January 4th, 2006
Mind blowing, and makes me think the builder MIGHT have first dibs on all properties around him with plans to buy them up and raze them as they become available …. forming the parkland setting this screams out for – but a decent storm might take care of the ‘ruins’ before that is achieved.
I JUST LOVE IT !!!
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Intriguing Fence
January 2nd, 2006
Near Punta Ballena, on the tourist resort SE coast of Uruguay is this wonderful fence I have previously admired, and in the last week I had my camera with me and was able to stop and photgraph it.
I know fences need to go up hill and down dale at times, and other times the landholder will do some earthwork along the fenceline to make a fence and land ‘fit’ better for easier construction. This one has always had a laborious character, IMHO, enhanced by having painted it white …..
