http://unturned.net Dry Laid Stone Walls, Steps and Paving - Trail Design and Construction Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:03:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have been working on these four columns for the last few days, when the weather cooperates. They are built of a Virginia sandstone that we are taking pains to lay in the bedded plane. That can be difficult in a narrow veneer. The wooden timbers are not on center ... http://unturned.net/blog/2009/03/13/columns-contrasting-styles/ Three distinctive elements meet at the corner of the front stoop. The formal edge of the steps leads to the reclaimed brick walkway, which borders a random or mosaic style stone patio. The homeowner commented that a handful of the paving stones look like the coat of a brindle dog.   ... http://unturned.net/blog/2009/02/18/brindle-bricks/ Last week Fred and I built this stoop in north Asheville. It's part of a design by Landscape Architect Tony Hauser of Ambient Design Group. The weather has been such lately that it took almost a month to get the footer poured. Too wet, too cold, too wet and cold. ... http://unturned.net/blog/2009/02/15/new-stoop-stone-classes/ Recently Fred has been venturing to Highlands, a town a couple hours southwest of Asheville, to conduct trail-building workshops with volunteers of the Highlands Greenway. Last week she led a winch workshop for a handful of volunteers. The staff there have been adding web pages about the work ... http://unturned.net/blog/2009/01/26/highlands-greenway-other-stuff/ On my birthday, my son Abraham and I built this small stone lantern out of leftover chips from the Thyme project. It's lit by a single light bulb and rather short and squat. Small whimsical projects like this help me understand more about how stone works- and fails to work- ... http://unturned.net/blog/2008/12/13/lantern/ I visited the Thyme Project at dusk on a very rainy day. The rain and the light combined to give the stonework its richest colors.    http://unturned.net/blog/2008/12/13/thyme-finale/ After finishing the front yard, there was a small project around back at the Thyme House. This step up onto the back deck had caved in over the course of its short life (less than ten years.) The exposed paint edge shows how much it had settled.  ... http://unturned.net/blog/2008/12/11/thyme-step-repair/ I have just begun selling note cards and art prints featuring photographs of stonework. I have one set of cards available of work done by the Unturned Stone. More sets will soon follow. Check them out at my design studio site, Papershine.   порнофотки маленьких девочек ... http://unturned.net/blog/2008/12/04/stone-art-photo-cards/ We finished the wall feature earlier this week on a cold, soggy day. It'll be a little while before the yard recovers, but even amongst the mud, one can see how the wall and walkway trace each other through the yard. In some places they echo each other and in ... http://unturned.net/blog/2008/12/03/thyme-wall-completed/ Yesterday we finished out the area around the bench, where the formal garden flagstone walkway fades out into a mulch path. Not quite visible in this image is how the joinery loosens up towards the end of the flagging, as the stonework peters out. http://unturned.net/blog/2008/11/19/thyme-bench-ii/