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Project that appeared in the Oct/Nov 2012 issue of Stitch, the magazine for the Embroiderers' Guild UK
Art in progress at a small, rural produce stand in the North Carolina Sandhill's region, creating a "Home Made Ice Cream" sign.
I stopped for ice cream, but ended up taking a series of pix during her sign painting.
Home made strawberry ice cream is always worth making a rest stop for when out riding the Sportster.
This is a lettering collage made with PhotoSpills. The photos were taken on a vacation to Maui, Hawaii.
from Wm. Hugh Gordon, "modernized Methods in the Art & Practice of Lettering for Commercial Purposes", 1918.
St Helen and St Mary, Bourn, Cambridgeshire
This is a huge, blockish cruciform church set in the grounds of Bourn Hall. Bourn Hall, you will remember, is where Patrick Steptoe created the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in the 1970s. He must be one of the very few people of the last fifty years of whom it may be said that he truly changed the world forever. Steptoe, who from all accounts seems to have been a thoroughly decent bloke, is buried next to the entrance gate.
The church imposes on its small graveyard in a spectacular manner, and its best feature, the 13th Century tower, looks powerful and mighty. It nods back reverently to the Normans while rejoicing in its Early English display. It is surmounted by, unusually for Cambridgeshire, a lead spire, and this is twisted as the wooden beams inside have succumbed to the centuries.
Architecturally, this is a spectacular church. The interior is restored in an urban fashion, but the view back to the tower arch complements the fireworks of the exterior, and to the east there are two fine windows by Ninian Comper of 1936 and 1947. As if that were not enough, the reredos is also Comper's. This is a grand church, greater than the sum of its parts, and it comes as a surprise to me when I look at my photos to see that really there wasn't a great deal of historical survival, but the overall effect is so powerful.
My great-great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Farrington was born in Bourn, an illegitimate child, in 1799. she was baptised in the font which is still in use. She married my great-great-great-grandfather William Huckle here, and my great-great-grandmother Frances Huckle was born and baptised here in 1824. I have a photograph of Frances in her old age. Her grandson Edmund was my mother's father. Poking about in the churchyard, I was pleased to find a row of Farrington headstones which I photographed for future perusal and interpretation.
It was time to turn back east, and return towards Cambridge by a different route. I cycled back past Caldecote to Kingston.