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Dry Stone Canada Stone Festival 2019

Dry Stone Canada Stone Festival. Amherst Island, Ontario, Canada. In late September Canada’s dry stone wall association Dry Stone Canada ...

North American Stone Tour (Toronto and California)

I was very fortunate to get to do a bit of a North American stone tour this Autumn, starting off with a return to the Dry Stone Canada, s...

Northstone 58 Stonefest. Scotland

I was delighted to be invited by George Gunn to speak about 'the creative use of stone in landscape design' at his Northstone 58 Stonefes...

Mosaic inspiration from Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona, the city of mosaics!

Dry Stone Canada

September was a busy month for stone festivals. First we returned to ‘The Gathering of Stones‘ site to put the final arch in place and to...

The Stone Festival season has begun! Stein und Wein Austria

Well the stone festival season is well and truly upon us. This year I started my festival season with a trip to Austria’s largest wine-pr...

StoneFest 2014 and the Irish connection

So after a number of years of procrastination and dreaming about going to StoneFest, this year I finally made it over to Seattle to atten...

‘Temppeliaukio’ The Rock Church, Helsinki

Last September my wife had to go to a conference to Helsinki, Finland, so I decided to tag along and see what Helsinki is all about. On a...

The Bottle Houses, Prince Edward Island

The use of glass in the landscape is something that has interested me for some time, and is something I hope to incorporate into one of m...

All Ireland Scarecrow Championship, Durrow, Co. Laois.

Back during the August bank holiday weekend, we arranged to visit some old friends near in County Waterford. Heading down the motorway, o...

The ancient salt mines of Wieliczka, a blog post from Poland

A few weeks ago, my wife had to go to Krakow for a conference, so we decided to make a city break out of it as neither of us had been to ...

M. C. Escher and the Chand Baori stepwell in India.

Hand with Reflecting Sphere by M. C. Escher 1935 Ever since my art teacher in school handed me a book depicting this picture by M. C. Esc...

You call that a Rock house….This is a ROCK HOUSE

You may be forgiven for thinking that this is a scene from a remake of the Flintstones by Tim Burton., but believe it or not, it is a rea...

Everglades Gardens at Leura

A few months ago, I was asked fellow garden blogger Britt Conley from the Photo Garden Bee to partake in a photo meme. For the post I cho...

Shell House ‘Nautilus’ New Mexico

A few months back while researching for my post The Shell House at Ballymaloe Cookery School, I came across this very different and quite...

Stone art in its most gigantic of scales. The Crazy Horse Memorial

Here is some stone art in its most gigantic of scales. I recently saw this monumental piece of stone art on the telly and was very intrig...

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