Stone Me

i am back, at least temporarily. man, the 365 streak of daily shots has been broken and broken hard. i think it's been a couple weeks. i am sorry to those who were in the zone with me with the daily uploads. i had a tough time sucking up the reality that i was not able to keep it going throughout the year as planned, but then realized there was not point on crying over spilled milk and that the more reasonable approach was to simply do the best i can to pick up the ball and run with it again. so last night, i did just that. i was planting some new ornamental grasses and took a 5 minute break to grab my camera and shoot some snaps of the stone wall i just completed in the backyard. it's a retaining wall that sits on a small hill which has transplanted and ornamental grasses as a backdrop behind. the wall is also a comfortable sitting wall with large flat stones that help anchor it all together for stability. the majority of these randomly shaped stones were donated by my kind neighbor who wanted to get rid of them in order to build a new stone wall that is tightly fitted with a different type of stone. i gladly removed stone by stone from his old wall and wheelbarrowed them onto my land and began the puzzle of fitting them together to create something pleasing to my eye.