Thinking With My Hands

Is there anyone who studies or mingles or works with stone, who doesn't feel an affinity with lichen? There is a relationship there, whi...

Dry stone walling is often counter-intuitive and filled with ambiguous concepts . The whole thing seems to attract contronyms and controny...

Homonyms, acronyms, synonyms and antonyms....Just when you thought you’d figured you had them all sorted out, they come along with another c...

There's nothing wrong with sitting on fence now and then, especially a dry stone one. When faced with opposing walling ideologies someti...

People in Canada sometimes ask me if it is all right to plant things in a dry stone wall. It seems ironic that gardeners in Britain are ofte...

Signs like these are not just humorous but often much needed disclaimers. A property, when it is being 'landscaped', too often looks...

For the last two days we slogged in the hot muggy day preparing the base for the bridge we will be building at the Canadian Dry Stone Festiv...

The Dry Stone Waller Walling in the Small Town Cemetary In rising walls I spy a giant coffin for a late, open casket wake where god weeps o...

I first met Matthew Ring about 6 years ago at a dry stone wall workshop I taught north of Cobourg, Ontario. He was one of those people who w...

Here is a link to an article by Ray Yurkowki a writer with Way Back Times, which I discovered yesterday while looking up 'dry stone wall...

Don't you wish you could just sign up and start listening to stones?

Dry stacking stones lends itself to many applications. I am grateful to have been able to build many of them over the last 20 years - beauti...

It seems appropriate to honour the flagstone industry today by combining the flag of Canada with the 'flag' of patios paths and pool...

I have built many arches over the last 10 years. I did quite a few roman arches before I did my first gothic one. That was in collaboration ...

I have to confess that I don't know my next door neighbour very well. I have yet to learn his name (first and last) and have no clear id...

I built a dry stone tree today. Well, it is more like a truncated tree with 6 cut off limbs. It's over 8 feet tall. I was inspired to ...

There is a growing battlefield out there. Fields and gardens in our area (Southern Ontario) are being invaded by a insidious green enemy: Do...

Do you have an exciting web site? It doesn't have to be a site for sore eyes, but it should change once in a while! It should do what ...

Just like handwriting, every waller has a style of building. Just by looking at a wall it is sometimes very obvious who built it. There ar...