Why I went to Port Isabel TX

NOT the only pyramids out there.....

 

iirc - the Latin words above the pyramid translate to something like, "God has favored our undertaking".
Here's to hoping that favor continues....

 

It's 'supposed' to be a symbol of endurance, and the ability to weather the....um, 'ages.'

There IS no 'official' reason that it's there, but my personal belief is that GOD likes irony.

 

Manifest destiny

 

I thought the words above and below—ANNUIT CŒPTIS NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM—translated to "year of inception of a new secular (as in worldly or time-bound) order".

On the base of the pyramid, the letters are MDCCLXXVI—1776.

The open question is the year that gets put down as the year of demolition.

edit: checking again, I might have the upper part wrong.

Yeah, my bad. Annuit is not related to annum or year; it is something like to nod or smile upon.

So Providence (the eye looking down on our unfinished pyramid) is smiling on the inception of our project.

 

Masonry?

 

I can't see the pyramid well enough. Does that look like mortar in those joints?

Also, I don't know if you're still technically a mason if you just stack blocks up without buttering them first.

 

" ... technically a mason if you just stack blocks up without buttering ..." Arguably a better one if foundation, design and execution are done well.

Mortar makes things easier. Rebar, easier still.

 

For want of a nail.....

 

Ever tried nailing bricks?

 

maybe it's wood with faux brick veneer