Bryan it is a WIP as there are more things to be done to it. Since this is only for me and not a client I build with things I find so my designs change with what I can buy in Goodwill or find on the curb on trash pickup day. That's the way we old people without sufficient income roll.

Muy interesante. Increible, yo entiendo casi todo. Soy un estudiante de Espanol con la sistema libre, Duolingo. Para mi el sonido es poco diferente por que mi esposa es Venesolana y vivimos en estado Arizona en EEUU, pero muy cerca la frontera con Mexico. Perdoname, pero mi Castillano es muy pobre.

My abode or my adobe. This for the abode I am selling, but the new house (actually not all that new)down by the border is burnt adobe. The work on the old house is taking forever as my wife and I are doing all the work. The new place also requires a lot of work. The only thing I am not doing is ladder work as I get new knees in nine days. Anyhow to paraphrase Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, "I will grout no more forever." If we make Margaritas no one will get as far as the patio.

Does she have a phone number?

This is a kitchen island I am building out of spare parts and some IKEA components. I am selling a house in Phoenix, Arizona and some areas of the kitchen were looking pretty tired. The Mexican nails (clavos) and electrical plate will probably be black iron and it will also have legs.

You might want to try adding a cloud shadow on the hills behind the houses. I think that would really make the building pop.

The water surface is not what I would expect from that lighting setup.

I concur.

Not sure, but some medieval masons may still have been working in 1961.

I have not used Maxwell, but do the amount of spots decrease as the render time increases. In other words is this a progressive render?

The bow wave should rise up drop down and finally drop to a neutral water level. Then a wave should spread out in an inverted V. One example http://slamdunk4152.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/akatsuki.jpg

@mike lucey said:

Yes indeed, solar gain could well be an issue as Spain is a hot place!

I like this lift, so clean. It doesn't take much space either. I think consideration should be give to future lifts in domestic designs. This opens up more possible usage ..... now that I am approaching my more senior years, i tend to think more about these things ALSO the senior citizen sector of the Western World populations are increasing!

"Wrinkle Power Rules," I am with you Mike.

And on the day after the snow was gone from my yard but still on the mountain.

Thanks Pete. That is a 30 second exposure at f2.8 and ISO 1600. It was dark enough that I could not see much through the view finder and had to bracket the focus to get a sharp image. Normally even light breeze action on an exposure that long will blur the photo, but it was one of those soft windless snow falls and branch movement was damped by the weight of the snow.

What is your thought on adding a shingle texture?

You guy's really uped the ante on snow photos, so here is a blizzard at midnight.

A lot of people escape to Arizona to get away from the snow, but down here by the Mexican border at 4,800 feet it snowed on New Year's eve. By noon the next day the snow at this level was gone.

![Address Sign for "This Cold House"](/uploads/imported_attachments/3dIf_Snowy-Entry.jpg "Address Sign for "This Cold House"")

All my neighbors have idiosyncratic address markers and, not to be left out, I designed this film reel with the number 77. It refers back to when I was a combat photo officer in Southeast Asia shooting motion pictures of that war.

I may do additional renders when I come up with a support structure and lighting.

This location is almost the geographical center of Philip Caputo's novel of immigration and smuggling on the Arizona/Mexico border titled "The Crossers".

@dave r said:

FWIW, I did this yesterday while I was drinking a cup of coffee.

Tall, grande, venti or trenta?

I played with the tone mapping a bit and wonder how it looks to you. I was in a rush, so forgive the many sloppy edges