Thinking With My Hands

Last Tuesday, on one of t he coldest nights of the year, I drove by the looming dry stone sign that Eric Landman and friends built tw...

Thanks to Shelagh Lippay for her flora renderings of the garden wall  we built, the photo of which  I posted last Monday. 

Using age old techniques and waste material A recent article in the London Free Press 'Several years ago, local landscape des...

This is a unique dry stone gate entrance project we finally completed on the last few days of 2014. ( The weather was kind.) ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/audioslideshow/2010/mar/05/stonemason-cwo-chichester A Roman stone mason would have precious little...

I see through my iPhone. The dry stone wall I have discovered on my walk, its various fits and patterns, its structure and composition, ...

Photographer/artist Alain Bernegger created these amusing stone people. The three of them look a bit nervous about having their Ne...

Hand signals are extremely important. Our words may not be heard.  They may be misunderstood.  There is no language barrier when you kn...

Hikers trying to get rid of a hangover near Hardanger Norway http://www.vasstun.no My grandson Andrew practicing flying off th...

Below is a fun 'mind-bender' for some holiday fun. I need this sort of stuff to ponder when I'm off work and my hands are ...

Farley has been with me a full year now. He has come to work nearly everyday. Somehow he's convinced me to do this Christmas video ...

It's no longer just around the corner.   Winter is suddenly here! And remarkably, Christmas is 'just around the corner' no...

'Tis the season to lighten up.

This year is a building block Christmas  Decorating the mantle with balanced block letters took a while. The 'S' neede...

Here's a really great Christmas gift idea for that up-and-building dry stone waller in your family. I got this set for my birthday...

Tarping and tenting - Five birds-eye photos of various stages of the latest project and our attempts, over the last few weeks, of tryi...

Courtesy of  Dave Allen / Stone Point Studio

Some stones have a lot of ego. They pretty much always want their photo taken and so often there's no one there to take their pi...

I have a friend who likes saying that 'Everything is a conversation between positive and negative space'. Indeed dry ston...