As Winter Closes In
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Winter is closing in. It's 7:00 am and still dark outside. I'd like to be sitting in an Adirondack chair on a lake shore with a cool drink and a good book but without a winter coat.
It's hard to get motivated this morning so I was just goofing around. Created a new line style for SketchUp and then decided to play around with Fotosketcher. I should probably add some context for it. We'll see.
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Dave, that is excellent, yet again. Adirondacks are not common in my region, so I was wondering if this tandem setup is your idea? It exudes all of the principles of good woodworking expected for outdoor furniture. And the routed out figurative silhouette adds a very nice touch.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
Marcus, the loon was kind of fun to do. I found a photo of a painted loon, imported it as a material and traced it on a "board" Then I cut it out and stuck it on the chair.
Tim, the two-holer isn't my idea. This is based on a design from a magazine although I disremember which at the moment. I find Adirondack chairs to be extremely comfortable and the wide armrests are a perfect place to set a drink and a dish of snacks. I think of them as the outdoor version of a Morris chair. Anymore, though, I find them very difficult to get out of without a crane. The slope of the seat is steep enough on most Adirondack chairs that it's difficult to slide one's posterior up to the edge.
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It occurred to me that if you are sitting in one of these chairs- in the Adirondacks- it is the perfect angle to view the mountain vistas, but not, as you say, so easy to get out of.
Oh, and I realized I did not look more closely at the tree figures. I thought they were through openings, rather than relief carvings. -
In a few hours time we change the clocks in the UK until March.
By Christmas it'll be getting dark where I live ~3pm ! and also not light at ~8am.
There's a move to shift all times by an hour in both winter and summer, so we'd get extra light in the evenings.
The Scots who are even further north will undoubtedly veto it as it means it'd be dark at >9am in the winter !
I know Thomthom in northern Norway will expect it to be dark all day in the winter and light all night in the summer... but there must be a compromise for the rest of us !
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Tim, the trees are pierced through. Or more properly, cut out of the edges of the back slats. The loon is applied though.
TIG, I was in Norway in early July of 2000. We did a cruise down the coast from Kirkenes to Bergen. In Kirkenes I was continually confused as to the time and the direction I was facing because sun never set. It just sort of traipsed round above the horizon. My clock was screwed up and I found myself awake at times when normal people were asleep. I think I would hibernate in the winter if I lived there.
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I too was camping in northern Norway in the summer - very strange...
It would start to get 'dusk' around midnight/1am and then the 'dawn' would start immediately [as the sun bounced off the horizon] so the best you got was a slight dimming of the sun over night.
Our tent wasn't opaque enough!
I know in Tromso in Norway - the furthest north city in the world - in the winter as it's dark all of the time they go mad and drink themselves silly, but then in the summer evenings it's light all of the time so they barbecue and party, again drinking themselves silly... one long binge! -
My liver wouldn't stand that anymore!
I remember the ship we were on pulling into a port at around 2 am. There were a couple of men working on a wooden hulled fishing boat. I thought it was odd they were doing it at that time of the night but they were just making use of the time.
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Nice chair, Dave. I like the loon embellishment
I was just commenting to my brother how dark it was this morning, it was 7:30 before it got light
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