Thinking With My Hands

Adaptability  - adapt and ability "to fit (something, for some purpose)," from Middle French   adapter   (14c.), from L...

I t is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.  Theodore Rooseve...

A dry stone wall (like any other dry laid structure) will likely fall down in a short time if the one who builds it lacks integrity, b...

The four throughstones in the Wall of Life are -  Integrity, Resolve, Adaptability, and Wonder.  You are only fooling yourself if ...

Moving a stone building (or in this case a stone boat) stone by stone, is not something to be taken on lightly. The chances of having...

We change. We draw our bow slower but our aim has gotten better. We have learned how to be in the company of people but are more c...

 It's way better than being stuck in one of those fancy new mortar homes.

A unique deposit of quartzitic schist in the Mojave Desert of Southern California is quarried by Sydney Peak Stone. First it's...

Maybe I think too much about rocks. Coming down to the dock in the early morning last week seeing this beautiful scene I thought again...

This photo is connected to the link below to a recent article in the St Catharines Standard about the dry stone walls along the Niagara  ...

I had been pondering long enough now. It was time to put brush to paper and try to paint a stone so that it looked convincingly like a ...

Certain species of snails are known to 'cluster' on grass stems, fence posts and stone walls  in order to ‘aestivate', aw...

Kids attending the Landon Bay Nature Camp this August paused on our bridge for a photo. Named Kay's Bridge in Landon Bay Centre (not ...

  Yesterday after work I tried my hand at painting a section of stonework  that  we built last year. I was using a new watercolour set...

Many years ago, my partner Glenn and I built this lovely cottage nestled along the shore of lake Kawagama We were contracted to build th...

This dry stone planter the students built during a workshop I ran in San Francisco nine years ago is made with the same lovely saucer ...

While it’s obvious building dry stone walls all day sometimes makes you tired and a bit achy, I’ve had a problem with feeling unusua...

We were asked to rebuild an existing badly built dry stone wall using mostly the same material. I call it a petrofit. Before

Whoever says its a beautiful day out there should try building walls in this weather. This multi-tiered dry stone wall garden area w...

And Mark and I were merely players, called in to improve the look of this one here in California. Here are the various stages.  ...