#stone stacking

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Stone Cairns / Stone Balancing / Stone Stacking “Thor’s Gate” Style Cairn, complete with spiral drawn in clay

[comahonyart]

Forever a little mystery. I made this with a stranger over the course of 3 or 4 months. This tree stump sat just off a trail I hiked weekly from 2009-2013. One week I saw an attempt of a small stone stack of 6 or 7 stones. I'm not a big fan of stone stacking but would always look for this one as I passed. One week the rocks were swept off the stump. I collected them and placed them back on the stump. I just made a simple "stone circle" shape like the fairy rings I had seen as a child in Cork, Ireland. I noticed the following week that another stone was added to the circle. I added another one and week by week, stone by stone the circle grew. Fast forward a few months and this heart shape started to form until one week we were done. I wish I had documented it weekly. I wonder if my mystery partner documented it? True story.

I abruptly stopped my hikes there upon the death of my father in '13. Various reasons but primarily I couldn't handle the silence.

[zoeflake]

Unknown but proud young stone-stacker

[hikayaking]

Stone Stacking on the Beach

[agnessines]

Hace tiempo que quería hacer un cómic explicativo, con un personaje simpático para ello. He escogido el Suchomimus, que se llama Mimi (?). 

I hope you like it! 

[rosememorial]

Stone Forest

[dare-valley]

Today I found a this piece of molten metal in the remains of a burned out car in the middle of nowhere. It has a kind of twisted beauty but was to big and cumbersome to carry the miles home. So I made a stone stack to add it to (and kept a chunk for the hoard, of course!)

[benobsidian]

Stacking stones on Oddicombe Beach, Torquay