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L-7”, W-4”, H-5”

Sandstone on Red Birch

L-6”, W-2”, J-9”

Serpentinite on Black Walnut

L-6”, W-4.5”, H-5”

Made my first hunting trip of the year to a mountain river that has lots of colorful stones. This one is my favorite.

The colors of this stone remind me of the day I found it. It started off overcast and windy,and felt quite chilly by the water. I was thinking how nice it would be for the sun to come out and warm things up.

A couple of hours later the sun finally emerged. With no shade and the sun reflecting off the water and rocks, I started to sweat. That attracted a cloud of blackflies that tried their best to crawl into every opening on my face. I remember thinking how nice it would be if it got cloudy and windy.

L-7”, W-9”, H-7”

My 11 year old grandnephew comes over once a week to learn how to make viewing stones and we completed 4 or 5 together over the winter/spring. He chose this stone for our next project together and was in charge of the design. I suspect the fact he didn’t want to make feet may be due to the increasingly nice weather outside. However, I’m impressed that he stuck with it and has learned how rewarding hard work can be.

L-7”, W-5”, H-9.5”

This stone has been sitting on my workbench since last summer. Every time I picked it up and studied it, I just couldn’t envision a daiza for it. I decided to go ahead and set it in the wood thinking that would make it easier. Then I literally sat staring at it for a day and a half. I finally came up with the idea for the feet, but couldn’t picture the rest of it so I just figured it out as I went along.