Painters

Painters.

Lunch on the steps,

of my house

Mowbray

framed by the willow,

as I return from

the Skudder House

with my camera in hand.

The Earthquake Commission

is painting my house.

Well, to be accurate, the EQC team are painting the walls. Just the walls. Gordon is painting the joinery and ancillary trimmings. There are a lot of ancillary trimmings on an Edwardian villa.  Together, the painters add a joyful, busy humanity to the place.  And colour is their business.  Tony points out that the turquoise-blue falling from door and window frames was not used on the walls. He reads the colours of the past,
just as he guides my choices for the future.