I am working once again on a somewhat large-scale landscaping/hardscaping project. I began with the rocks- small, medium and a few larger ones, did some carefully selected planting and am now back to working with stone again. It is slow going, but very satisfying, in spite of the high temperatures at the work site. There are no real time constraints on this job, so I can take my time. It is my kind of process, where I am allowed to find my way. It is a continuously emergent/responsive variety of creativity. I respond to what was done just previously. There is always a danger of painting yourself into a corner of sorts, but that rarely happens to me. I believe that I am able to alter my course early enough so that that doesn't happen.
I am just taking a break, had some lunch, and am enjoying the air conditioning and of course taking advantage of an opportunity to write. I spent a bit of time reading other people's blogs and then making a couple of changes to
Lost and Found in A Kayak... I write and write and write, obviously not so much here, but everywhere else. Writing has become my primary activity. Art of all kinds is still more fundemental, more primally satisfying on the deepest level, but writing seems to now win out in terms of production and attention.
Back to work- Back On the Rock Pile
Cutting steps into the hillside- fitting and sometimes wrestling large, thick pieces of flagstone into place.
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