gandydancer1950 posted:Moonson posted:Thank you, Gandy! Always good to hear your perspective.
One of the houses, a gift to me, in that neighborhood is of our home (tall house, white-n-gray, angular, in the middle of the back row). It was crafted by an architect upon the commission of a dear friend.
Also present is a model I had crafted of my wife's childhood home (little girl in a red coat on the front porch, reaching for the doorknob).
The whole neighborhood is the result of pure imagination (that sound like a tune I heard somewhere.)
Happy Thanksgiving, indeed!
FrankM
Imagination....that's what it's all about. The church on my layout is a Christmas decoration in near scale that plays Silent Night! Lol!
I have a few porcelain Dept56-type churches tucked in here-n-there on the layout, too.You can spot some of them in these photos. One is tucked-in as part of a Catholic School vignette, on the other side of that stand of trees on church property.
The others are on their own level, the 3rd Level, among an entire community dedicated to the porcelain buildings phenomenon in our hobby.
My wife had given all that you see here of them as a Christmas gift, decades ago, because, back in 1995 when I first stepped into this hobby, we were not aware of many people making buildings by-hand or commercially, at the time of our initial immersion into this hobby. Of course, they are all lighted, up there, by a couple strings of traditional Christmas-type colored lights, no less, inserted in them.
We decided when I re-did the entire layout, this last time, that a dramatic presentation of all of them was fitting, since they held a meaningful place in the creation of our layout for us , too. They are a bright, cheerful presence, aren't they.
FrankM