Thinking With My Hands

  We get older, sure.   And, eventually we start to collapse . We settle and lean and slowly, if we are true to our selves, take on the natu...

 

My home is never more than a stone‘s tow away. I have made myself a rockreational trailer. It’s not a TraveLite that’s for sure.It’s not a n...

. . It took me a long time to paint the lichen but obviously not  as long as it took to grow on the rock  . I studied the pattern of tiny fr...

 

Sean Adcock builds dry stone walls for a living. He is damn good at what he does. In fact he’s probably the best waller I know. Working alon...

 

- Care for a totally random shaped portion of keystone limestone pie?  Mother Earth made it.

Better than being chaste on the beach. This miniature Naked Waller on the Port Hope west beach is not even wearing gloves!  

  . The body embraces every touchstone  as if it were its own.    Bare shoulders bare lonely boulders, so they do not feel alone. . . In the...

  We sometimes like to think that the dry stone walls we build, if built properly, will last a long long time.  But we concede that, like ev...

The four day Lonsdale Arch Workshop held from June 14 to 17 got off to a rocky start but ended up being a wonderful experience.  End of day ...

 

  Although the July 30th to the Aug 1st two day weekend workshop at Sweet Life Farm stretched out to be a three day event for some of us, it...

 Curve appeal?  Pitching and contouring the granite surface to look like bedrock( Bendrock ?) for the new parking area.

 

, My home is never more than a stone‘s tow away. I have made myself a rockreational trailer. It’s not a TraveLite that’s for sure.It’s not a...

 . It's good to try to think about the plight of our friend the boulder  It sits around on its own all day, and just gets older  Alone i...

 . , Welcoming travellers on the busy 401 highway to the Port Hope area (which has many beautiful dry stone walls and historic brick and sto...

 ...   When we’re searching in a random pile of stones for good ones to build walls with, we sometimes come across unusual rocks that have w...