These friends spent the day with us, all creative and very talented individuals! When we get together, we share the projects we've been working on and often swap some things we've found that we're pretty sure the others would enjoy having.
Last summer, while in Lunenburg, I happened upon some shingles that had been attacked by carpenter ants. While their capability at turning wood to lace is not desirable within the home (!!! ...as we sadly, well know!) I saw the beauty in what was left behind and gathered some pieces to share. At the time, the man whose barn I found these in, thought I was nuts! "Crazy Californian!"
Today my friends reacted to them as I had when I came upon them; they loved them! They WILL do something wonderfully creative with them and we'll share all that the next time we get together!
Ken couldn't stop laughing... But that's the same man who wanted to throw out my wabi sabi lanterns :)
@salza Thanks Sally! I gave all the shingles away to these friends but I'll get more when I return up north! I did 3 photographs of them, as this, and will see if I can incorporate them into a photo in actuality or as texture! Therein lies my challenge and quest!
Ah ha! The wood lace! Yes it really is beautiful and I can see why you collected it. I would not know where to start though in using it. I cannot wait to see what fabulous artistic creation you come up with! Looks like you had a great get together with your equally artistic friends!
that is really beautiful. The White Ants we have here that eat people out of house and home only leave crumbling wood and dust. Cant wait to see what you do with it. Is it really that lovely pale colour?
@cruiser ...said ants had demolished a second floor room over the back porch in Lunenburg before we discovered what they were up to! Nothing bad happens without an upside... The man who rebuilt the room for us had become a wonderful friend and has since done carpentry for us quite regularly since! It was at his barn he'd just inherited from a relative that he showed me the shingles...and yes, they're that colour exactly...sooc... His girlfriend, there with us, is hugely creative, and she also loved them...probably hated me dipping into the stash! She and I will have to talk...now I've given them all away and I *need* at least a couple more!
@cruiser She's artistic, too. I think she knows that, also! It's Rick, her b/f who thinks *I'm* crazy for wanting them, so imagine how well that flies that she wants them, too! (It would strike you as even funnier if you knew them!)
I love this story! And I love your statement, "nothing bad happens without an upside." So very true, Louise! Your positive attitude shines through your words, your images, and your smile!
@pyrrhula Thanks, Ferry! It wasn't a tree...it is one of a pile of wood shingles that had been left in a barn...for a long time, probably! Rick was going to throw them out, but Brenda and I saw something beautiful in them! One wouldn't even have "to be creative" to see they'd be lovely as a backdrop for a Nativity on a mantle place! Or behind an arrangement of large sea shells...
@Weezilou Thanks for explanation. You`ve to be very carefully with old pieces of timber and clean it very well. There can be all kinds of disease`s (and insects) in it.
@pyrrhula Absolutely, that's excellent advice! We have our house fumigated twice a year, so I hope that "cleaned" those at the same time! I agree that I would not want to bring anything inside that might cause problems in our home!
Hey maybe you could start a cottage industry, employing these carpenter ants and paying them in wood bits. As long as they don't belong to the Carpentry Union, I think you should be OK.
April 8th, 2016
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