Thinking With My Hands

A while back I was asked to teach a workshop at a couple's property near Port Perry Ontario. They assured me they would have plen...

While we were in California we initiated a  variation of stone balancing. It involves building dry stone arches over around or on to...

This very cool retaining wall was created by students at the Gualala Art Center taking the Dry Stone Conservancy waller's workshop...

Hilary Dee took this lovely photo of our 'wing wall', an unusual dry stone  retaining  wall we built in Gualala three years ...

Before Mark and I had even completed this structure in Gualala, in January of 2015, it was already being referred to (by those who...

A long retaining wall we built in Gualala utilized a lot of french-bread-shaped 'guillotined' stones which normally would be us...

Monroe sits in front the vertically fitted dry stone wall that we built last year between two tall California redwoods, which so far h...

In January, a bunch of stone aficionados visited Gualala for the Stone Foundation's  Stone Symposium 2016 . I was delighted that m...

This is the first of a series of posts about the stone projects in a place that some of us now like to call Wall-lala, California. Th...

The thorny rose  now devoid of all flowering beauty  ferociously directs its spiky winter tendrils along the silent wall as if...

Justin Reichman did a superb job of capturing the colourful expressions and vivid personalities of some of the stone masons who attend...

Those of us involved with Dry Stone Walling Across Canada are excited about an unusual international event coming up this October in ...

                                                                It begins well. In canvas den                             the dyk...

A complex of garden walls built in 2014 by members of Dry Stone Walling Across Canada near Dorset . Photo John S-R Be happy. Here in Can...

Instagram Instagram is a refreshingly simple and spontaneous way of sharing your own photos. No drama. No bombardment of unwa...

Very interesting article  in Low Tech Magazine  on the efficacy of masonry walls in gardening, which logically would include dry stone...