An off-topic entry for the holiday weekend. I hope you enjoy it (the entry and the holiday).

They take cows seriously here. Outside of the few big cities, I don't imagine that there are very many square miles of land without cows. And the sound of cowbells. You know the cowbells that you see (and hear) Swiss fans ringing at the Winter Olympics? Those aren't a quaint throwback -- they are a way of life. Cows really wear them. Sheep wear them too, though fortunately for the sheep they wear smaller versions. The effect is similar to wind chimes, though far more pleasing, in my opinion.
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One of the things I want to do on this blog is discuss Greene & Greene designs (not all of the posts can be flights of fancy into the history of rock music). Some posts might be general or focus on a specific design detail. In another type of post we will analyze a single piece of furniture. This is the first such post. The topic, as the title suggests, is the entry hall table from the David B. Gamble house.
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If architecture was rock-n-roll, Frank Lloyd Wright would be the Beatles and Greene & Greene would be the Beach Boys. They aren't quite as popular but their catalog is arguably better.
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Chapter 4 of Poems of Wood & Light consists of a series of twenty-one short sections, each illustrating some aspect or detail of Greene & Greene design. What follows is an excerpt from the introduction to that chapter.
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Passion can cause one to behave in unusual ways, to do things one wouldn't normally do. We have all experienced this. For example, getting up at 3:00 to go fishing. I can't recall doing that myself, but I understand that others do it. Or driving, seemingly forever, for the opportunity to spend two hours photographing a 100 year-old table. That I have done, and enjoyed. Passion.
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Welcome to the first entry in my blog. I'd prefer not to use that word since I'm not sure that it's entirely accurate. I'm not going to post photos of celebrities and make snarky comments about them. And I'm not going to post daily updates about the minutia of my life. I guess "blogs," like "books" or "movies" take many forms. What I intend to do here is give updates about Greene & Greene Furniture - Poems of Wood & Light, share some stories about researching and writing that book and announce some of the other projects I'm working on.
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