My stone miscellany are essentially an odds and ends collection of stone features I have built that don’t fit into other more easily recognized categories.
Some of these stone constructions are functional, like a mailbox, but the majority of them are just for looks, or at least wildlife habitat.
Most of these are one of a kind, and only built one time for very specific circumstances.
The stand alone vertical sandstone piece in Pennsylvania was a cutoff scrap from the adjacent walkway. My client, a landscape designer, asked that I install it as pictured. It is the smallest stone I have ever installed for a vertical piece.
The granite boulder with the bronze plaque was the largest stone I have ever set, weighing 13.5 tons. It was the largest single stone ever extracted and sold from the local granite quarry. It required the largest crane available, the heaviest duty tractor trailer, and the largest excavator in order to deliver and set. It also took the longest, from dawn until dusk. It faces the continental divide in the Appalachian mountain range in western North Carolina. On either side of it are a 7 ton and an 8 ton boulder, which gives the three boulders an appearance resembling the mountains behind them.