snow stops digging

A wistful remembrance of the Summer and the layout for the tiny -scale quincunx orchard. Only 3 trees planted and frozen ground (and old cottage foundations) stops digging. The measuring lines have sagged and broken and the markers trampled flat under the snow. Not quite up to Browne's ideal. This is what it should look like........

Quincunx Carpet

I like this picture of a wall painting of Shah Abbas for the lattice -pattern or quincunx patterned carpet he kneels on. And the line of dancing girls at the front.

"The foure square forme is the most usually accepted with all, and doth best agree to any mans dwelling ...... yet if t bee longer than the breadth, or broader than the length, the proportion of Walkes, Squares, and knots may be soon brought to the square forme and be so sast, as the beauty thereof may be." Parkinson, Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, 1629

Versailles & a knot formation from Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris 1629

Persepolis: chahar bagh, Garden of Cyrus and Browne's quincunx combined.