Facades

There is something potent about Ponton's Store, VA. Every return trip to the thickets and wooded lots of its vicinity, I feel a strong pull, like it's a portal. The hounds yapping on the deer trail, the F-15 Flyovers from Seymour-Johnson AFB (possibly) and the drone of the southern draw....bring me in line with what I love about the Piedmont: rural pace as a rural trace of the by gone. The architecture of Ponton's Store brings visions of Brugge, Belgium to my core. Coincidence? Or, is Ponton's Store, VA on its recourse and bringing me through its portal door? The facades of the buildings are similar but remain oceans apart, forever. The lines of brick and mortar are so clear, the symmetry is copacetic. That's the cool of the locale, order is seemingly flawless, like legos stacked into a pyramid. Order from chaos, making sanity of loose ends, providing those with OCD (like myself) a gratifying vision of form and structure (like myself). Architecturally aesthetic. Southside/Piedmont (foothills of the Appalachians) VA, all the way through Brugge, Belgium. The continuum is clear. For arts and crafts sake in the partaking of the matter, D.A.D. and I reveled in the lego construction of the skyline's facade. It's global.