Thinking With My Hands

Just because a dry stone structure looks different, just because it lacks the extra tight coursing of say Yorkshire style walls, or bec...

Something there is in me that loves a dry stone bridge, That makes my heart swell as I look under it, To see the upper boulders suspende...

Mike Melo,  Brian Bailey and  Patrick Callon collaborated on this lovely dry stone structure which was a design of Patrick's. Th...

Big thanks to everyone who leant a hand on Little Long Lake Bridge.  There was invaluable instruction shared with us from Gavin Rose w...

Gavin Rose a National Trust ranger and expert trail maker taught people  about the technique of 'pitching'  at the close of our...

The arch was looking pretty sweet in the rain yesterday. It was definitely the high point of our day to see it with the form pulled out...

Here are two people taking two very different shots at the bridge. Hunting season is over in Ontario, but at Little Long Lake n...

You know there is a big difference between being over the hump and being over the hill.  Yesterday we put all the stones up on the bridge...

Can you guess what this is? Can you guess what all the pink and white marks are for? Can you guess what we are building? Ca...

The two Aussies  who are participating  in  this ten day bridge course  , Gavin and Angus   stand beside the completed section...

The men have caught this large granite specimen and are loading it in the back of the pickup truck. They have caught their limit now.  J...

Are these men just hunters gathered together to have their picture taken before they go off to stalk deer of moose in some wooded Ontario...

A Scottish waller friend and I were driving back from the States and discussing the problem of being shown a wall (either being taken to s...

This fortress like partition put up by Steve of Sara's Garden Centre protected us from the wind and rain last Saturday and Sunday a...

So, before there were rock festivals, before there was even rock and roll music, there were rocks! And way back then, like now,  ...