Friday, February 01, 2008

What's up overhead?

Answer: ceilings, of course; some make lovely patterns. Especially if the sun plays its part, as it does in the front lobby at Samaritan Village NH, where I often sit visiting with Mom. This is a morning location; by early afternoon, the light is no longer transmitted through the shade...

...and it's time to look in the other direction where light fixtures and fans are the players.

Here is a different ceiling, this across the street at the church. Without the fans, the patterns aren't quite as interesting.

Additions & Subtractions: I've removed a couple of blogs from the blogroll at right -- nothing was happening! And there are several newcomers. Locally, an educator concerned with using low-cost computers as a learning tool ... a Prescott woman who writes of adjusting to vision loss ... and an enthusiastic & flamboyant weaver. Also new: An Alaskan adjusting to life in the big city (Atlanta.) Read and enjoy.

Later & At Your Service: Mr. RV-Boondocker-Explorer (see comments) wondered what the pix would look like turned upside down. Ho-kay -- here are two of them. I'd say that the first of the pair doesn't look that outlandish and, thus, is a failure for the imagination. However, the second bears a certain relationship to a Hollywood vision of a high-tech nightmare. You can picture our heroine running between those knife-edged fans, pausing briefly to fire her blaster at the alien hordes on the hunt.

5 comments:

  1. Ceilings are often very interesting to observe!

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  2. Anonymous7:30 AM

    I'm trying to imagine what this series of photos would look like upside down.

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  3. meggie -- more so in commercial or institutional buildings, I'd say, than in most homes.

    boonie -- your idea is my command!

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  4. Anonymous1:47 PM

    Room designers should be thinking of us poor folk who get stuck in bed longer than we like waiting for our caregivers to get us up. A nice ceiling to view would do wonders for us! =)

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  5. karen -- my GP has a poster or picture on the ceiling above the examination table in each cubicle. It does keep one's interest! Something with motion would do an even better job!

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