A very strange bird is the Pelican His beak holds more that his belly can!

The gardens and grounds surrounding Thomas Jefferson's Home Place are informative as well as being attractive. Strolling about one is struck by the seeming omnicence of the designs that serve people in practical as well as spritual ways.

Here's the URL of Thomas Jefferson's Home Place:
http://www.monticello.org/

Fiddling around with graphic files, fonts, and table specifications.

About a year ago I was at Monticello. One of the rooms had a parque floor made up of pieces shaped like the elements in this pattern I've used for the background!

As you can see
there is a repeating
octagon pattern
that is created
by the squares
surrounded by the trapazoids.
The octagons however
are linked together
as each one uses
elements of it's neighbor
to complete itself!

Recently I acquired an image editor and converted and cropped the bitmap file, that I'd created last spring, to a Gif file to make it compatable with internet browsers.

   This is actually a test of a couple of techniques 
I've been working with. It probably looks pretty strange, 
however it embodies the possibility of creating background 
files from bitmaps, like the output of a common windows 
application called Paintbrush!
    Perhaps I'll go back and increase the image size and work 
on the pattern one pixel at a time and get the relationships 
between the various elements in the proper proportions. If I
select a few more sutle shades or textures for differentiating
adjacent panels the effect might be more apparent.
                                        Mike

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If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions
for a new color scheme, send e-mail.
Thank you for your time.

Mike