Cairns in the garden
Stacking rocks to make pretty garden pieces
This whole house thing is a lotta work, but its fun too. SO much to plan out. SO much to design. SO much to do. I like it.
We've got two planters in the front: one on each side of the steps. For the last year and a half, they had been covered with sheets of black plastic and 3 inches of mulch. The "soil" is a heavy yellow-ish clay, and there were 3 root stumps hidden under the mulch (one pretty big one... that was fun). We dealt with the stumps and breaking up the clay a few weeks ago. Yesterday we tilled in 3 bags of top soil, and a half-barrow of compost. We bought the brick border, and a bunch of plants and then went to town. I just hope the plants appreciate all the work and grow like mad.
There were a bunch of rocks laying around the mulch patches, and I thought it would be neat to make cairn's in the garden (like you see on a hiking trail to mark the path). I'll change them around every once in a while, plus it gives me something to do with all the big rocks we dig out of the garden.
Ya know... its amazing what you can find on the web. There are blogs dedicated to rock stacks found in nature and on trails... There's flickr tags... But really -- its this guy who does amazing things (Here's a great little video of him). Mine are just piles -- he balances rocks on top of eachother and makes these un-real sculptures. I wonder if I have the patience to do that...
I found this video last year... or maybe Dave found it... nonetheless, I'm SO glad I found it again. It's so neat to watch.
A short film that is played entirely in reverse and involves the "reverse destruction" of balanced rock sculptures. The movie is intended to be a manipulation of gravity and time though the simple effect of reversing the film. And although the film is played in reverse it appears that the man who is doing his magic is going forwards in time.
