Thinking With My Hands

Flying in the cherry picker to the site where the scalloped 'wall of wings' dry stone feature is mid way completed . ...

We are empty stones with nothing in our hands,  countless uninformed nodules of matter straining to grasp the truth, We a...

Sean Adcock came over yesterday to join us building the last couple wings of my wall after having spent the last few days basically work...

Lots going on here. Barrelled surface of granular  sub base has been spread over landscape fabric over the protruding inner vault of vous...

http://www.idealquarry.com/wiresaws.html Art Horvath is a stonemason and an inventor. His focus for the past several years has be...

Photos by Kathryn Gleason  

Future boulders wall on the right I find that boulders are very hard to integrate into a dry stone wall. Ones that have bee...

Matt Driscol                                                                             Kyle Schlagenhauf Richard Burkholder, Matt ...

Yesterday large buff coloured dimensional copestones were shaped by a couple of the guest masons working with me this week at Gualala and...

Paul Lindhard has a creative relationship with stone. He understands how to let this silent timeless material speak for itself. Many of ...

These are pallets of pebbles at American Soil stone suppliers in San Francisco Although they are all neatly arranged in their d...

  Richard Burkholder is one of the dry stone wallers working with us here in California. He lives in Gualala. In the above photo he ...

Fellow stone mason Sean Smyth from Montana showed up on Monday in California to help us on another dry stone walling project this winte...

In order to make the arched bridge wider that we had only partially completed last year in California, this year we are building for...

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While the others look for that perfect wave - I'm going surfing at the internet café  further down the beach  on this sunny Cali...

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The next town east of where we live calls itself  'The Wellness Capital of Ontario'  I dislike the word 'Wellne...