It is always an exciting day when we trowel on the fibreglass reinforced concrete and begin sculpting the features for a project. The welded armatures covered in hand tied galvanized lath quickly come to life as we carefully sculpt the shapes and textures into the concrete. On these days we make huge visual progress. Today was an ambitious day and we managed two large gate posts, three light standard bases, half of a hollow log and the ‘wooden’ ramp up to the final hole. Tomorrow we’ll finish the lath on the last three features before doing another sculpted concrete day on Friday.
Almost ready for mud
We are making rapid progress on the features for the Surrey mini golf project. The armatures are now all complete and well on their way to being lathed. (the truck still needs to be lathed) The sculpted concrete work begins tomorrow!
Just the right shot
Some of our projects are very difficult to capture in photographs. Once such project is the Clayburn Pet Hospital sign. I’ve been trying to get a good picture since we installed it in January. Each time I drove through Abbotsford I would drive through the quaint village of Clayburn in the hopes of getting a good photo. I’ve come away empty-handed time after time. Before the leaves were in full the background was far too busy to properly showcase the sign. The sign sits among many trees with more large trees on the other side of the road as well. This makes for some hard shadows in the bright light of the day. In the morning the sun shines unevenly on the sign making good pictures impossible. At supper time the light again is bright with hard shadows. On cloudy days I’ve found the light is dead as there are too many trees in the area. This evening as the sun went down I made a special trip (30 miles each way) to try again. I had to wait until the sun was just dropping over the horizon for the light to be just right, still bright but without any shadows. I captured it at last!
