THE VISUAL JOY OF PERMANENT TEXTURE

THE VISUAL JOY OF PERMANENT TEXTURE

I've always been taught that to know what's going on in life that I should look ever upwards           

 Renaissance

Blue Skying !!

Yes to a point but  I also believe that there's a wonderful wealth of visual joy at eye level by just observing what's before you particularly when travelling abroad.

Locally quarried stone - all quite wonderful

 

 Subliminally when travelling in a foreign country one mentally compares what one sees with what you remember from your homeland.   

 

 Our visual comparisons can be  dangerous as in other aspects of life, but I've found that 'the change' can be inspirational and away from your daily norm and visual memories back home?

Could be in Norfolk but in fact is in France

  Dry stone walling is now ahighly supported profession in the obvious locations where walls act as a division of fields/pastures and when built higher a security measure.

Roofing is incredibly attractive on the eye and can be in a number of materials from slates split and shaped in the quarries to clay pantiles that allow the roof voids to breathe as in cowsheds and stables.

In times past  all the materials going into constructing a dwelling, home or barn would have been sourced locally and would have been perpetuated over the centuries  very often by generation after generation of the same families working in the quarries and tree felling the local forests.

 

Just think of the craftsmen that built these buildings possibly 300/400 years ago 

Did the bricklayer design the mix and match of this visual patchwork ?

I'm not sure about the reason or need for the 'black' ended bricks other than they make a very pleasant design but the black ended bricks I have on the front walls of my house are said to be bricks that "were over cooked" in the kilns and were therefore in essence rejets, for me they add a further visual pleasure.

The contrast between timbers and soft red bricks is stunning

Not a permanent visual as the logs are being stored prior to use but very definitely a memory from my tavels

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