DryStoneGarden

mongrel flagstone walkway

Here’s another hellstrip walkway, from our own hellstrip in front of our house. It has a piece of Champagne in it, but otherwise is not much like the other. I’ve been adding to it for a while, building it with leftover stones from various jobs. There are seven different types of stone, though two of them, the Cabernet and the Sonora Gold, are so small they mostly just pad the total; the box for the water main should almost count as number eight. The Connecticut Lilac in the lower right was the first. It’s 3″ thick and really heavy, so I didn’t want to have to load it up to haul to another site. The most recent stones are in the upper left, Three Rivers, from a recent path installation. The only stone type I rejected was Sedona Red, a brick colored stone that looked awful; otherwise, if it was flat and the client didn’t want the leftover pieces, I stuck a few in the hellstrip. One of our ideas in starting this blog was to accumulate examples of different kinds of stone and stonework, but I’m not sure what this is an example of, other than what can happen when a stoneworker decides to make a crazy quilt. The list of stone types: