Thinking With My Hands

While the quarry at Sydney Peak is about as 'green' a quarry you can imagine (in California this is very important), it occurred to ...

Yesterday we took a field trip out to the Mojave desert to Ridgecrest California. They tell me this area is called the 'high desert...

Here in this part of California there are numerous winding roads that go through a lot of rock-cuts and along side of steep cliffs. It can b...

Being someone who builds walls without mortar and knows very little about football it's understandable that while here in the states I w...

Yesterday's posting involved thinking about the propensity for certain granite to accommodate being shaped at right angles. I began to n...

You can't see it very well in this photo, but this random chunk of granite just about to be shaped already has a natural ninety degree p...

Stones are the most moving things on earth. People of all ages have been moved by them, as they are not only heavier than most other things,...

Katsushika Hokusai The Pacific ocean was very choppy yesterday. The waves, all random sizes and shapes, were breaking far out at sea and ev...

There is a manmade creek in the park at the Letterman Digital Arts Centre in San Francisco. Located in the Presido, this park is the setting...

Thinking with my hands doesn't get much better than this. I am just thankful to have associates whose hands think the same way mine do. ...

This is your brain on stones. People call a certain euphoric state – "getting stoned", but if it doesn't involve actually work...

They say a good waller picks up a stone once and then puts in the wall. To keep picking it up and putting it down again isn't efficient....

Dry Stone Country Found this interesting video trailer last night. There are many others like it on Youtube. It makes building stone walls ...

There are not many American beers I like. So many of them seem tasteless and watery, way too weak . Either that, or they go overboard celebr...

http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2010/10/15/white-trash-repairs-earth-4-5-billion-years-old-and-still-damp/ Not So Handy Andy has...

Sometimes yes, we wallers do use hammers and chisels, and then sometimes (thankfully, rarely) bad things happen to good wallers. It's th...

Sean Adcock likes the steepness of his part of our wall. It rises at a cute angle. Yesterday the stone placement was hard to catch on to. It...