Rocky Mountain High

Our best friend is rocking the dry stack....

They surround themselves with rocks in the home and yard, and this compliments living with textures of Fir, pine and snow. These top two photos show these hand picked beauties accented with the green lichen and do some support work for the Colorado Red Flagstone retaining wall.

The little bench is workin' the Flintstone's look with the smooth white river rocks as support.

Coping With It

More intricate dry stack using the Swiss Cheese limestone. The jigsaw puzzle that develops as the stacking goes along ends up as an abstract finish. This informal stacking gets it's strength and finishing touch with the coping.

Even an old rock wall gets a thrill out of this!

It doesn't snow very often, so it is cause for photography! Our usually sweltering old wall had a treat of a dusting of snow in February 2010.

Kids of all ages were thrilled!

An Appreciated Remnant

This stately remnant is on a lot all to itself, with only a gnarly oak and cactus to keep it company. The owners built their home on the next lot, leaving this wall plenty of room to breath. I am sure that the Live Oak behind it was a little sapling when the wall was constructed. I like to think that the lovely English lady who owns this property chose it because it reminds her of the dry stacks that meander through the countryside in her native England.
Northern Hays County, Texas.

Palette of color

Warm rust, honey, cream, Dijon.....The range of color in the limestone available is part of the charm. It is affordable enough to bring your vision to life. Perhaps a ribbon of this beautiful stone trailing across acres of land. Not taming or separating, but allowing nature to dictate its' path. This small grouping of trees prompted the builder to ease the shape around the trunks, not disturbing them, but adding to its' organic flow.

Friends at the wall

The deer on our property seem to like the wall. They lay down next to it, put their fawns in the shelter of it, and show us their gazelle jumps over it. This buck stopped to give me a portrait.

Large stones can play too!

By using large boulders, dry stacked, you too can get that Flintstones look. The owner of this wall brought these large boulders from the back of his property to define his driveway and the

front of his lot. This wall is not going anywhere.