He looked down at the patchwork quilt of the Pennsylvania countryside.
Then it's Drake, remembering his father's face in the "church light filtering down through a patchwork of green forest branches".
Sometimes we look down through one patchwork plane to several others; sometimes they are stacked in front of us, accordion-style.
Color had its uses; at the Life Savers factory in Port Chester, N.Y., he looked down on a patchwork of conveyor belts, for a hole-punching machine, distributing mounds of fluorescent green, yellow and orange candies.
"This looks like the civil rights movement never took," Barber said, staring down at the patchwork of sewage at his feet and walking around the brown liquid taking up much of the street.
Everything is already there in a subject's unstudied pose, in the floral dress against the floral patterned glider chair, in the way the sheriff points his gun down at the patchwork quilt as he sits looking belligerent and stupid on the bed, in the raised beer bottle and hard stare of the woman in the crowded club.
Ladders of sunlight pour down onto the patchwork fields and Wasdale suddenly takes on a gentler aspect: the wet fellsides sparkle in the sharp light and Wastwater turns into a smooth sheet of silver, reflecting the surrounding hills.
Teams like the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks can be taken down with a patchwork rotation.
It comes down to a patchwork of inconsistent state laws, and one state's definition of "salvage" may not align perfectly with another's.
Up and down that battered and patchwork roster, the Mets looked distinctly different from the team that won the National League East and reached the World Series last season.
From there, a glass of wine in hand, you can gaze down at the unremarkable patchwork of offices and suburbs that has changed the way the world works.
