Chuck talked to the landscape guy on Wednesday. Mr. Torrey gave him a fair price to take up the labyrinth and, then, put down black plastic and mulch.
We get to replace the labyrinth.
So, today, between rain events, I started taking out the pieces that I don't want piled in a heap with glacial rocks dumped on top of them. Or, worse, scraped up and hauled off with the grass.
I have picked all kind of small things out of the heartspace. Seashells, a small (squirrel?) skull, the black plastic cap that says "Made in China" and "Do Not Remove", the little Buddha, a blue tile, a glass bead, a concrete star with glass bits in it, an egg timer and rocks, rocks, rocks. Amethyst, quartz, peacock ore, marble from Iona, a pebble from Lake Erie, carborundum from Hiddenite, snowflake obsidian, labradorite, amazonite, black tourmaline, agate and did I mention quartz?
This yard grows quartz. Not the pretty quartz they sell in rock stores. Big, honking lumps of milky rock that makes planting ANYthing a pain. But, I always have rocks when I need 'em. :-)
I moved the river rocks Ingrid brought me from the stream in her back yard and the candle holders at the entrance. It started a cold rain before I got the chunks of granite Kristal contributed to the entrance.
It's looking oddly bare out there.
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.
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