This painting, depicting the sky over Greensboro, is found in the small rotunda of the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch of the Greensboro Public Library System. The actual sky can be seen through the windows in the middle where sun beams through to illuminate the picture for all to enjoy. As stated on their website, "[t]he library is located in the 98-acre Price Park, which includes a bird and butterfly meadow, reading garding, walking trails, ponds, and wetlands." This is our second link to Skywatch Friday, a project where people from all over the world share a slice of the sky as seen over their respective communities.
Are there any sky paintings in your town? If you painted the sky, what would it look like? Why don't we all try it! The more we examine our city, the more we realize how much there is to see and do here. Happy Skywatch Friday the 13th! (We published this, by mistake, earlier in the week and, at least one reader chalked it up to the superstition that Friday the 13th's are considered unlucky)!!!
I'll get round to the sky paintings in my town someday! This is such a lovely ceiling, there's a darker mood on the right, is it night?
Posted by: cieldequimper | Saturday, March 07, 2009 at 03:05 PM
Is this a Friday the 13th advance screw up?
Posted by: pfknc | Saturday, March 07, 2009 at 04:24 PM
That's a lovely, cheerful painting! Except when you get to that dark, dead tree. Is it a day-night kind of scene?
A skylight in a library sounds unusual to me — I know librarians don't like it when the books get sunlight because they deteriorate faster. But the sun person that I am likes the idea :)
Posted by: Hilda | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 06:35 AM
Beautiful!
Posted by: sharon | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 06:51 AM
What a magnificent painting and lovely way to look up to the sky...
Posted by: Today's Blah... | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 06:59 AM
They are elegant paintings, I would be coming back to this library more for the skywatch and of course for the books.
Posted by: Bohol Today | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 07:18 AM
Oh that is beautiful and a great take on skywatch!
Posted by: Tanya | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 08:51 AM
What a lovely painting. I'll have to think about where in the triangle area there would be paintings of the sky. Great idea for skywatch.
Posted by: Carver | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 09:06 AM
Now that is a unique sky...how creative. What a lucky library! Thanks for sharing this one...
Posted by: Linnea | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 09:47 AM
oh this is a really interesting skywatch! i like this a lot.
Posted by: floreta | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM
This looks really great. The cupola itself and the windows even look like they could have been painted, like a trompe l'oeil. It's a great post for skywatch because of the little twist to it. And thanks for your comment Jan!
Posted by: Marc | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 04:17 PM
Interesting way to have blue skies overhead all the time! You have some great images of Greensboro.
Posted by: Lew | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 06:09 PM
Most interesting. How do you keep your nose in a book? I'd be looking at the ceiling the whole time!
Posted by: Jacob | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 07:11 PM
what a great mural for a library. I could get a book and lay down and read a book while staring at this ceiling in between the page turning
Posted by: julie scottsdaledailyphoto.com | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Wow wow! What a ceiling! I wish to see more skies in the ceilings after seeing this.
Posted by: chrome3d | Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 01:42 AM
That is pretty impressive for a library! Really lovely.
Posted by: Joan | Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 07:29 PM