The surrounding cinder-block patio wall was made of one-footsquare decorative "bricks," each design of sufficient intricacy to provide an ample, if not original, hiding place for a key.

Bridge tables sprouted from patio walls.

A looking glass soared through the air and shattered against the far patio wall!

It ended suddenly at 1 A.M. when two men driving by sprayed automatic gunfire at the patio wall.

Mark and Jemmy were perched on the patio wall, immersed in some point from Mark's book.

A conversation piece for a patio wall and for feeding the bluejays.

Lyons led his captain to the end of the patio wall and showed him the machine gun.

Sounds were noticeable, too, and Margo thought she heard a rustle of the creeping ivy vine that crawled upward on the patio wall.

Mel stared at the blank patio wall.

From 1946 through the 1950s, she made the architectural forms of her Abiquiu house - patio wall and door - subjects in her work.