Day Twenty Seven

Here is a close up of one of the eight opus quadratum motifs I am setting in the corners of the flower panels to illustrate the challenge of getting the cement thickness right and keeping the mess under control. I had to clean up the cement quite a bit on this one - my third. By the time I got to number eight the mess was a bit less morbid.

Here the left flower panel has all the square motifs in place.

All eight square motifs are in place.

Next I filled in the brown opus vermiculatum in the triangular areas above the arch called 

SPANDRELs.

The day's work done! I spent about 6 hours in the greenhouse today tiling and listening to the rest of The Writer in the Garden (edited by Jane Garney) and starting in with Oxygen. I was achy afterwards and settled down on the sofa with a beer and a bowl of popcorn to watch a movie. The weather was on again off again rainy and sunny, windy, humid, chilly. I chose the Japanese film DEPARTURES. Excellent - the best movie I have seen in a long time! I strongly recommend it! But have a box of tissues handy.