Friday, February 26, 2010

4 ENFILADES + 4 AXIS

Simple at 1st glance, below, looking at the sundial on axis with the frontdoor.

From the frontdoor, below, looking at the sundial.

From the side of the house, below, looking at the sundial.


From the other side of the house, below, looking at the sundial.


At first glance simple. Haaaaaaaaaaa. Can you use 1 sundial & create 4 enfilades + 4 axis?





Elizabeth Barnhill Clarkson, a childless matriarch, makes it seem easy. Her garden, Wing Haven, is now a public garden in Charlotte, NC.
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I lectured at Wing Haven yesterday morning. Elizabeth Lawrence, another childless matriarch, wrote, A Southern Garden, lived a few houses away from Wing Haven. Wing Haven acquired Elizabeth Lawrence's garden & it's open to the public.
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Katie Mullen is in charge of restoring Elizabeth Lawrence's garden & is blogging, Elizabeth Lawrence Garden, about it.
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Oooooooh yes, dahlings, more about these 2 women, their gardens, their homes......
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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I took the pics yesterday.

5 comments:

@ miss autumn said...

The view from inside is beautiful.

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Anonymous said...

Pretty sundial and entrance! Hope the lecture went well!

E + J

Vintage Linen Treasures said...

You're right. It does look simple at first. But, WOW, what an impact from all four views! BEAUTIFUL!
Patricia :o)

Millie said...

I wouldn't dare put a sundial on a path here at The Hedge Tara - MOTH is the clumsiest, vaguest of husbands & I can see him & the sundial flying through the air every time he tripped over it! The only other thing would be to place a flashing warning light on it similar to the ones they use on light poles around an Airport!
Millie ^_^

Anonymous said...

Completely divine!!!