Mountain Laurel Teal Maine Tourmaline Ring

Mountain Laurel

Teal Maine Tourmaline Ring

I think Greek architecture and detailing up high on city streets with old buildings, details no longer seen at street level, but up high, detailing in brick and stone up near the roof line. Detailing you can only see by tipping your head back. There is a contemporary eye in architecture, for clean simple lines, Danish Modern, then there is an eye that wants more, wants to engage with not only shape and form, but wants to see detail, wants to see the highs and lows, the shadows and light. I get it. I found a matched pair of pedestal vases at a lawn and garden center. The shape, the size was perfect. The telling detail that made it so I had to have them was the leaf pattern around the upper rim. Every time I walk past these vases my mind, heart and soul jump with delight even if only for a second to two. There is some genuine pleasure in this sculpted pattern. I imagine all cultures, all civilizations that have added exquisite detail in leaf and curl, have felt the same as they built their great cities. The patterns are not all necessary to assist in holding the flowering plants. It certainly does, though, warm the oak terrace where the vases sit.

The Mountain Laurel design elicits the same response, and although the pattern is not identical, the deeply sculpted leaves in the ring delights some remote architectural detail loving part of the brain.

This Mountain Laurel leaf pattern sweeps up to the center gem, encircled with yellow gold. It is low-profile, comfy, smooth. The Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Greeks and Romans would approve.