Thinking With My Hands

  After leaving the Orkneys we traveled by ferry to Thurso at the northern most tip of mainland Britain. From there we travelled by bus...

               This is going to be one stone event you should not miss. stonefoundation.org symposium 2016

You have to wait for the tide to get there from here! On Saturday we also visited the Brough of Birsay, a  21 hectar tidal island l oc...

It seems that the archaeological remains of the Ness of Brogdar in the Orkney's viewed from the air have a peculiar like'ness...

We visited this impressive dry laid 'dove cote' on Saturday. Although Rendall Doocot isn't an ancient Neolithic tomb it...

We had hoped to see the Ness of Brodgar on our 'Old Stones' tour of Scotland. There's plenty of fascinating information wr...

We visited a world famous Neolithic standing stone ring yesterday afternoon. The Ring of Brodgar  in Orkney Scotland  is the third lar...

Our flight path two days ago We did better yesterday. To 'be' or 'not to be' (there)? There is the question ...

A dozen or so of us are off to Scotland today for the second time in 12 hours. The ten day 'Old Stone' tour where we will be ...

Archaeological enthusiasts John and Mark have unearthed a mysterious dry stone structure near Buckhorn Ontario. We are eagerly awaiting t...

Don't know what this is, but it's pretty and it's growing on the property, so I'm calling this a Craig flower. ...

Day one of the Dry Stone Walling Across Canada weekend workshop at the historic heritage Craigflower Manor estate in Victoria, British Co...

I came across this on Pinterest. I'd like to think it's a photoshopped tongue-in-cheek dig at some of the very probably imposs...

Sometimes when the wind and surf is just right, and you've got the time and the perfect beach, with just the right shape and size s...

Batter Makes Everything Better

Stones just wanna have fun ! On the final day of our dry stone wall building demonstration at the Victoria Highland Games last wee...

We went for a simple very traditional style dry stone wall in Topaz Park this time at the Victoria Highland Games. It was built with r...

It's good if you have some longer stones to put 'through-stones' along the wall at about knee height.  Yesterday we were t...

Can you believe it?   We're here at the Highland Games in Victoria this weekend, stacking stones, trying to build a simple demonst...

Yesterday I revisited a Gothic arch and a rather challenging herringbone dry stone wall that my students and I created almost ten ye...