And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, October 17, 2025
Edward Hopper, Talbot’s House, 1926. Watercolor on paper.
Slate Mansard's are my favorite, gingerbread ones more so, most are superbly crafted by a team of artisan carpenters plumbers and stone masons. much of the slate and copper work has lasted till today, though acid rain has taken its toll on many. (at one time ran a little slate/copper work sole proprietor around Boston). Worked on some spectacular homes. Almost unimaginable the work went into them.
Like that a lot, sunny and bright, has a lot of character.
ReplyDeleteI had a sunroom like that. South facing with screened casement windows, a most favorite room
ReplyDeleteItalianate. Gorgeous. 11 foot ceilings, fireplace in every room....we loved ours.
ReplyDeleteSlate Mansard's are my favorite, gingerbread ones more so, most are superbly crafted by a team of artisan carpenters plumbers and stone masons. much of the slate and copper work has lasted till today, though acid rain has taken its toll on many. (at one time ran a little slate/copper work sole proprietor around Boston). Worked on some spectacular homes. Almost unimaginable the work went into them.
ReplyDeleteHoppers works always strike me as melancholy, at least that's how I feel when I view them, which perhaps says more about me than his work.........
ReplyDeleteHe rund outta paint
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