Cameraphone
Apr. 19th, 2008 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormWho knew they could take pictures like this? Anyhow, this is a picture of the site I'm working at taken middle of last week. I built those walls, and that's the paving we do. Old cobblestones go in the patchy holes. This is about a third of the site. We paved the patio beside the long slab (up where the piece of wood is) on Wednesday.
The pavers are all old, scavenged. This isn't a good location for moss, but sometimes we use ones that are already mossy. Obviously there are lots of different kinds. It's a bit more difficult to pave this way than it is to level stones that are all the same thickness, obviously.
The cobblestones that go in the holes came over from Europe back when Vancouver exported a ton of lumber and the ships couldn't cross the ocean empty: they put the granite in for ballast, built it into roads, then those roads were torn out and it was recycled into walls, etc. We're catching it on the fourth or fifth or seventh recycle. They have character.
The stone for the walls is basalt from Squamish (or so the tag on it says). Do they blow up mountains up there or something? We use lots of different things for walls at different sites. I'm personally looking forward to a cobble one.
The pavers are all old, scavenged. This isn't a good location for moss, but sometimes we use ones that are already mossy. Obviously there are lots of different kinds. It's a bit more difficult to pave this way than it is to level stones that are all the same thickness, obviously.
The cobblestones that go in the holes came over from Europe back when Vancouver exported a ton of lumber and the ships couldn't cross the ocean empty: they put the granite in for ballast, built it into roads, then those roads were torn out and it was recycled into walls, etc. We're catching it on the fourth or fifth or seventh recycle. They have character.
The stone for the walls is basalt from Squamish (or so the tag on it says). Do they blow up mountains up there or something? We use lots of different things for walls at different sites. I'm personally looking forward to a cobble one.
