Thinking With My Hands

Ventura lith-ovals found on the beach turned on end and stacked in a carin' way as the tide keeps creepin' in. There...

I've built many stone and brick Rumford fireplaces. They give off a lot more heat than most other  masonry fireplace designs. Rum...

Stones enjoy leaning into the sun sometimes. 

  In which country would you say this photo was taken? 

Yesterday was the first day of the two day pilot program offering a dry stone walling “experience” by the city of Kawartha Lakes. My s...

Stones are at their best when they are ‘mobilized’.  They can stay well-connected, yet need not be tightly regimented, that is, not ...

In my hands I hold the thoughts of stones waiting to be arranged. In my mind I hold the shapes of ideas waiting to be formed.

A lively page from last year's, winter 'Upstate Gardener's Journal' where news about our walling courses and other very c...

A rock 'is' like a hard decision, or rather, a hard decision is 'like' a rock.  They are both hard. The only diff...

There are many castles in your imagination.  If you look among old stone ruins you may discover something very hopeful and yes,  s...

We walled ourselves by the fire at the end of the second day of last weekend’s workshop at Sara’s Garden. Our team built a dry stone ‘...

Last weekend I revisited Sara’s Garden and took this photo of the ‘Irish Ditch’ wall that we built several years ago at the dry stone ...

Building arches with tiny people at last weekend's Amherst Island Dry Stone Wall Festival