Experimenting

Creating a landscape, even a small one, with rocks can be difficult. We are surrounded by rocks of every shape and size from giant boulders to pebbles. They can be beautiful...interesting shapes, covered with different colored lichen and and many different colors. The rocks we have found include basalt, sandstone, shale, jasper and petrified wood. What they all have in common is they are heavy and difficult to move especially on our hilly terrain.

Our neighbors have an enormous rockpile accumulated during the grading of their building site, They told us that we were welcome to take anything we found there, and although they are not far from us, there is a large steep sided drainage swale between us with our fence on the edge of it. The only way to get a rock from their rockpile to our newly filled and graveled area by the front door involves a trip up their steep driveway to the rockpile directly across from our back steps, back down the driveway, along the street for about 100 feet up our steep driveway and further up the eight steps to our front porch.

We have to be sure it fits and we really like it before we try to figure out how to get it moved. 

We went looking in our field where most of the large rocks are half buried and we really don't know how much of the rock is underground. John found one down at the bottom of the swale next to the fence that I have liked ever since I first noticed it when throwing Spike's Kong down there for him. Our good friend Dan has offered to come and help move it. Dan is one of those people who seems to be able to do anything, but I'm not so sure about John. The last project he and Dan did together did not end well for John.

The picture today is a double exposure...my attempt to try and figure out if it will work for our rock garden by the front stairs....As John says, it really doesn't tell us much, but it is the only picture I took today. 

That's not true...I took a picture of The Spring Lake painting I bought from Ann in situ. I'm putting it in extras. A couple of you asked about her website. Here is a link. She is also a landscape designer and the home page will say Rosmarin Landscape Design. Go to the top of the page and click on 'fine art' which it will take you to her paintings. Mine is one of the Spring Lake Series.