Thinking With My Hands

This wall, completed early in the spring, was started in November of 2013. Then the snow came !! After an unusually long and severe wi...

Before I usually am a great advocate for building tall walls. In fact the taller the better. Last year we were asked to shorten a se...

Dry stone walling across Canada has gone though many milestones. Lots of new wallers with fine skills are now keeping busy building all...

A fantastic theory of how the pyramids were made by floating huge blocks of stone through the desert and up into position. I think you...

The dry stone exhibition arch installation at this year's Highland Games in Victoria BC was a spectacular success.  Many peop...

The Krak was built last week under the instruction of Nick Aitken, with the help of Ken and Sunny, Eric Landman, Russ Beardsley,...

Sunny Wieler is resting on the north cheek end of the fortification wall. It's a bit difficult to describe how it has to be sh...

These drawings by Patrick McAfee of the fortification walls participants are building this week at the Stonefest event held at Mar...

Master waller with the DSWA, Nick Aitken, after many years of work and research has nearly finished  compiling and editing a comprehen...

A recent photo sent to me by Christopher Overing taken in Spring MMXIVof the Double Arched Bridge built at the Canadian Stone Festiv...

At the kind invitation of Alexandra Morosco and Scott Hackney of Marenakos Rock Centre in Seattle 14 stone craftsmen and women gathere...

"People think they have to have a purpose . It is far more important that  you have a function ."  Farley Mowat 2011

 "While we get something mysterious from the rocks, we give something back to them too." Farley Mowat

Unveiling of commemorative plaque at the Farley Mowat/DSWAC Ceremony in Port Hope Ontario Canada. Oct 18th 2006  Many people gathere...

In early May of 2013 (nearly a year ago to the day) I had the great honour of taking Farley to see the dry laid bridge I and some fr...

photo by j shaw-rimmington - 2014-03-29 Farley died yesterday at the age of 92 Rest in peace my friend.

John Bland a mason and a dry stone waller and who graduated of Algonquin college and has taken ...

A recent posting of mine mentioned 'ribbons of stone'. Here's what Nick Aitken kindly sent by way of some added thoughts on t...