Once again, we're considering the best way to keep the labyrinth manageable. The grass crawling over the rocks is a pain to mow around and it wears out the string on the weedeater in nothing flat. Salt helps but is a very temporary measure. It's about to be the end of mowing season and we're looking at what to do over the winter to get ready for next year.
The latest idea is to take it up, have someone come in to scrape up all the grass, put down the weed-averting landscaping fabric and replace the stones with mulch in the path.
Chuck is thinking that mulch would allow walking barefoot more readily than pebbles. I'm not sure I think it will make a significant difference to feet, but if he finds it more eye-pleasing then I am for it.
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We have had friends use it several times, but only once, to my knowledge, has anyone found it via the World Wide Labyrinth Locater and made use of it. This makes me a little sad. I like having it there because I like having it there, but I also installed it to share. and it doesn't seem to be fulfilling that purpose.
I expect I just need to acknowledge that it is there if someone needs it and that, if that is the case, they will find it.
I created a Santa Rosa Labyrinth © (designed by Lea Goode-Harris) in my back yard in 2006 with the help of my son and two girlfriends (one toted rocks, the other talked me through toting rocks). My teenager did the lion's share of rock moving. My husband did the greater part of the mowing and weed eating. In Spring of 2010, my patient husband had the whole thing mulched and we replaced the rocks. It is available for walking by anyone in the area who needs the use of the space.
You could do an annual "burn" with pyrotechnics, fire dancing, and a major art event. I'll bring some sparklers!
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