In Spain I remember how much fun it was to look at all the wildly diverse solutions to artistically solve the door problem. Boy, that was a complicated sentence Felipé. Yes, well we as pilgrims loved to look at and photograph doors. All the designs, colors, damage, repairs and minor details. All there, sort of a signature of the folks within.

Rho our Southwest Bureau Chief put a beautiful pic up on FB recently. She is always posting the most beautiful things just for the sake of it. This was yes, a door pic and it received so many likes and loves and shares. It grabbed me and I am not alone.

We do have an art historian here somewhere. Catalina could tell us all about this but I could try til she gets here. But first Rho was asking a while ago what do I do as Bureau Chief? And the answer to that is just be you and send me stuff. She I recognize has an eye for the beautiful or maybe that is the Beautiful. And that is what she saw in this door and only one example of pics that she posts.

So, I have made doors myself and I look at this particular door and I see something so harmonious and extremely complicated to construct. It is so amazing painstaking and maybe that is Painstaking in every way. It mimics the immense complexity of nature. At first it looks simple but the more you look at it it the more complicated it becomes. Everything is related and connected to every other thing. Nothing is isolated.

This has to be seen in the context of today’s architectural details which tend to be isolated one from another so the whole can be accomplished by numerous workers with minimal communication between them. It’s priority is efficiency and it gets the job done but sends a strange message. But here is the contrast living in this piece and it is what we see and respond to. Well done, Rho.

Our morning walk coming up in a minute. The sun is out and it is dry and cold. Thanks for checking in.

All connected loves, Felipé.