Thinking With My Hands

I was just about to start blogging about the new bridge when this breaking news came in... John Bland texted me yesterday to say he...

Tomorrow I am starting a series of posts about the dry stone bridge I have nearly finished building over a small creek in a beautiful woo...

Quite a crowd gathered to watch at the moment when the form was removed from the Moongate feature at the Dry Stone Wall Festival in Alton...

The wall behind the 2010 dry stone blackhouse on the Landman Farm in Grand Valley Ontario was the scene of Monday's certificatio...

The Book Booth The Carriage Works Wall The kids walling area Norman's Class The removing of the form. ...

Norman getting to know his students at the beginning of the festival Kids building with wood stone and bricks. Faithful...

Walls Without Trowels Sean Donnelly half way though the DSWA test to obtain his advanced certification building a retaining wal...

I made a practice 'tower' with dry stone bricks Thursday in preparation for what we will be  creating  with the kids   with wo...

We had to claw our way along the hedgerow and retrieve tons of round fieldstone and load it onto the trailer to take to a new job yest...

This is one of two very large carved signs that were over the doors of the original commercial stone buildings which stood on the prop...

The new Dry Stone Walling Association of Canada website is now Up! drystonecanada.com

If-rocks-could-sing! This looks like it could be a very cool stone book. Thanks to Sean Donnelly for this link.