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This is an interim photo of the new fountain installation we made at my home.

I got five rocks in the summer and one of them was drilled by Mark E locally.  I installed it solo a few weeks ago.  Mark did an excellent job drilling the rock and Dr Payne’s new plinth worked very well.

I took a series of pictures of the installation using a tripod and remote and posted them on Flickr

I got a new batch of stones from the San Gabriel River a few months ago.  After they sat in the driveway for a few months I had some large men move them around.

This one I’m going to clean, drill and make into our permanent fountain:

This stack, which nobody likes, I’m going to drill so that the stones are cantilevered and leave as a sculpture in the yard.

It is going to look good.  Like a Woods Davy sculpture except larger.  A lot larger.

The Men of Stone showed their gratitude to Rainbow Canyon Ranch by installing a beautiful fountain near the office at the ranch.

The final installation

The design objective (without the deer or the tree)

Most of the real work was done by my assistant Ruben.

Jesse, an old friend, instructs Ruben at the site

Ruben does the Excavation

Ruben finishes the Hardscape

Simon and Candy celebrate

Rainbow Stone Art Photo

Click here to see a complete list of the installations by The Men of Stone.

There are two kinds of rocks in the world: “Free Ranging” and “Caged.”

This picture illustrates the point nicely.  the large boulder and small rocks along the petunias in the foreground are free ranging the stones cemented into the walls are caged.  You can see that the free ranging stones are happier.  Is it stone torture? Read the rest of this entry »

The Men of Stone shown here are celebrating the installation of the Fishman Stone:

Dick, Simon and Howard

We are now taking reservations for phase two stones.

Contact Simon for more information

The Stone

And for the engineers:

An installation detail.