Patterns In LA

I've been in LA this week as my DH attends a conference at the LA Convention center and so I've been walking around the area, or taking the metro, and going to museums. This is the very interesting entrance to The Broad museum.

These next two were taken by accident when I didn't turn my phone camera off and kept walking. It was 97F and I was in the direct sun, that's my excuse. But they capture the excess of pattern one can see in a city (or really anywhere) if you look at things from an unusual angle.

I thought I'd be able to capture the shimmer of the heat-haze of the day off the street and buildings. But maybe it's only visible through polarized sunglasses?

This overlap of both grids and the angles of the posts of the storage system inside The Broad is such a great design.

In the downtown main library, the cupola dome is really gorgeous and pattern-filled.

There's a great exhibit about the building of the library nearby and they included these detailed color and pattern guides to some of those patterns. I bet there's a book out there (or maybe in that very library) that contains all of them. How about any of these as the center of a medallion quilt?

The old library card catalog drawers are still there, but glued shut, still look very cool though.

A riot of patterns looking down into the new wing of the library.

And then one of many interesting mosaic doorsteps. This design would make a great quilt.