The Brick Master

Last fall, great piles of multicolored brick began appearing in our neighbor's yard. They arranged themselves into tight stacks according to color - red, brown, orange, tan, gray. So many colors! We were intrigued.

Our neighbor began bricking in his home in the evenings and on the weekends. He bricked in the edges of the walls with a pattern of gray-on-red "X" shapes. It was such a strong pattern! I wondered if he would fill the walls with X'es! What I didn't know then was that my neighbor, Armundo Davilo, was a Master Brickmason. He would make something beautiful.

Through the winter and into the spring, Mr. Davilo formed his piles of colorful bricks into beautiful borders around the front door and all the windows. The X patterns became columns decorating the edges of the walls. The work was clearly from the hand of an expert, created with love.

In the summer we began to see that a new pattern was forming on the side of the house. What would it be?! It was subtle, with bricks breaking out of the plane of the wall ever so slightly. It was hard to see through the pine trees that edged the road.

Then one day we drove by and the sun was just right. The pattern pulled together and we realized that it was a horse. Mr. Davilo had created an image of a horse's head on the side of his house!

It's lovely and we are so proud of our talented neighbor and his work!