Getting Up
“Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.” John Wagner Photo is from the Oregon Coast in 2021.
Stones, Water and Spirit
Finding a center through natures art
How Long
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best from yourself?” Epictetus, Stoic Philosopher (circa 50-135AD) Photo is of a pair of Inukshuk along the Merced River in Yosemite from our sojourn there last summer. It is much harder to make Inukshuk from stones vs making them from rocks.
Lichen
“Lichen are Fungi that took up farming with Algae.”
Dr Frank Bungartz, ASURead More »Lichen
The Mystery Continues
In October we bushwhacked over to the structure we’d seen from the trail in September. We were able to confirmed that it is certainly a human made structure. Who made it and when is still an open question. It was built in an area that has more grasses than most of the desert nearby. my guess is that it is a shepherd’s corral dating from 1900 +/- 30 years. But I am speculating. I shared the photos and the location with the Phoenix City Archeologist and I’m hoping to get her much more informed opinion in the next few months.
Andrew Goldsworthy
We first saw Andrew Goldsworthy’s stone sculptures at Storm King Art Center so it was a marvelous moment of serendipity when we found two of his pieces on the woodland sculpture trail from the Frank Lloyd Wright home at Kentuck Knob back to the visitor center. Read More »Andrew Goldsworthy
Backyard Beauty
A beautiful garden is an evolving work of art. This season the fountain pond is filled with flowering Water Hyacinths.
New Fountain Installation
This is an interim photo of the new fountain installation we made at my home. I got five rocks in the summer and one of them was drilled by Mark E locally. I installed it solo a few weeks ago. Mark did an excellent job drilling the rock and Dr Payne’s new plinth worked very well. I took a series of pictures of the installation using a tripod and remote and posted them on Flickr
Stoned
I got a new batch of stones from the San Gabriel River a few months ago. After they sat in the driveway for a few months I had some large men move them around. This one I’m going to clean, drill and make into our permanent fountain: This stack, which nobody likes, I’m going to drill so that the stones are cantilevered and leave as a sculpture in the yard. It is going to look good. Like a Woods Davy sculpture except larger. A lot… Read More »Stoned