I came home to find these awesome books in the mail!

You know you are going into the right field when something like this makes you happy (its the Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture - you also know you are a mega nerd since you are blogging about it):






I bet you just can't wait to read all about canephora, different types of capitals for colums, spire lights, splays, and springers (also known as skewbacks or summers) .... ahhhh I know I can't. I have already started - first item is Aaron's rod ... any idea what it is in reference to architecture??? Hahahaha