Clamshells, Month 5

It's time for the monthly Clamshell Club report!  Wow, 5 months already?  How did that happen?!?  Looks like 3 rows per month will be my average. 

Mrs. Boney playing Elle MacPherson; I don't think she has a career as a supermodel in her future but the clamshells make a lovely skirt!

Mr. Boney can almost use the clamshells as a nap quilt! 

Yesterday we went on a little family trip:  the New Britain Museum of American Art was having an M.C. Escher exhibit and we wanted to catch it before it left.  Boy, am I glad we did!  This was the entrance - clever!

We were not allowed to take photographs within so I cannot share anything from the actual exhibit - but you probably know many of the pieces we saw.  I knew almost all of them.  We got to see the litho stone for Planaria, my very favorite Escher work; we saw all of his impossible staircases, his reflection pieces, several spectacular woodcuts and naturally his tesselative work.  This man had a caliber of mathematics tripping off his pencil that most of us cannot even grasp; he himself did not have the education to name most of what he was executing!  I stood in awe before even his most hastily-scribbled sketches.  As a budding quilter, I see his work very differently than I have in the past:  the posters that I had decorating my college dorm walls are still a source of delight to me but in a completely different way. 

Some details from the roofs of two nearby houses - love these decorative elements!

Does anyone still sell lightning rods?  You can see one sort of wrapped around  that finial there.  We have them on our house; when we had the roof replaced I insisted that they be reinstalled because an old balloon-framed house needs all the fireproofing it can get!

While some of us are not yet in costume for Halloween Night, some folks are preparing for the future:

Hope your Halloween is just a little spooky and a lot of fun!