Saturday, March 05, 2005
I May Have Jinxed Myself...
...last night when I wrote of the danger of stacking. Today I went out to stack and started by putting a roundie accent on the new tower. When I did I noticed a slight wobble, and when I bent down and started messing with it to fix it, the two top stones fell on my head. Dang. I took it down to a point and redid it.
This is the second reincarnation of Trifecta Towers. It is now known as Conker Rock.
The Treehugger Stack, aka "Son of Greybar." Dave will understand.
The garden at the end of Friday. Gotta run get ready for work.
Friday, March 04, 2005
I Have My Reasons...
...for not posting lately, mostly lame. Okay, so I met a girl, and that's not lame, in fact it's been wonderful, so I've been out late and not posting. But the weather's been lousy (it even snowed on Tuesday morning) and the winds have been high and it's been cold and well, I've been busy with my new job. So there, deal with it. But here are the most recent.
This is the rebuild of Trifecta Tower. I may have been a little bold in naming that one too soon. We had high wind Monday and Tuesday and it came down. On the plus, it didn't take down Tabletop Roundies (far left and low), but it did go back and take down the one behind it. This one has a savage pitch forward (which you can see in the next shot or two), and features a massive stone (rock D) that I purloined from a constuction site. This was one of those where, during construction, I worried for the safety of my skull as I was crouched and stacked above my head.
The garden as of Thursday afternoon. On the far left is one that I rebuilt Tuesday during the high winds of Monday/Tuesday. I put the big beautiful piece of muddy quartz in there as rock F, as you can see.
A view of Aguirre/Smith Manor with the garden. The garden is nestled beneath a spreading eastern hemlock (I looked it up. It really is a variety of hemock). The tree is gorgeous but farts boughs constantly on the lawn that must be picked up or raked nearly constantly.
View number two of the homestead with garden. I posted this one and the last one just for the girl I've been seeing, so she could see the house. She's not been here yet, though I've been to her home several times. It's great. She has some great stones left over from landscaping and she said I could build a stack in her front yard. It's gonna be great. You'll see it soon enough.
Monday, February 28, 2005
A Stack By Any Other Name..
...would still be as cool. I have taken the initiative and given names to some of the stacks. Since I have started learning more and the the stacks are now staying up for weeks at a time, I have decided that I can be bold enough to name them without fearing the heartbreak of their eminent demise due to the elements. I'll bore you with the individual names tomorrow. For now, enjoy some artsy photos via the magic of closeup (aka Macro ) photography.
The one in the center is the rebuild of the one that fell and took down Tabletop Roundies (the little guy to its left). I rebuilt it yesterday, taking great pains to make it solid and windproof. I have named it Trifecta Tower, as it has three dependent stones in it. The big beautiful piece of muddy quartz (rock C from bottom, of course) was purloined from the construction site I recently discovered and plan to visit a lot once it dries out enough to enable maneuverability through the muck.
Closeup of Trifecta Tower, with the tall little roundie accent. Ever since I got back from NC and Dave's Avant Garden (see link) I have been accenting a lot with the roundies, which remind me of the beauty of the river and the slow course it takes in making stones round. Patience is a virtue. You can't make a stone shaped like that overnight.
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Closeup of an accent on one of the dependent stacks. Actually I've gotten to where every stack I do has at least one stone that depends upon at least the stone above it to stay put, so they're all pretty much dependent stacks now.
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