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    Entry walk and entry gate I designed and built for a home in Arroyo Grande, California, in 2005.

    Pete Zarria, freddasusan75069, Girl with a Mandolin, CouthyQuine, and 14 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    1. Pete Zarria 42 months ago | reply

      Very colorful. You must have good knees.

    2. Lance & Cromwell 42 months ago | reply

      Those foam gardener's knee cushions from the hardware store are great knee savers.

    3. faithv 16 months ago | reply

      How do you find such colorful rocks?

    4. Lance & Cromwell 16 months ago | reply

      Some of the beaches along the Pacific Coast have colourful rocks. Just takes time and patience to go find them and carry them up. Also, this photo was taken on a partially rainy day so the rocks in this photo are mostly wet which really brings out the colour, the same effect as you would get if you polished them.

    5. m_m_healy 15 months ago | reply

      this is gorgeous, my seven year old daughter and I are in LOVE with it! She has a corner of the garden we call her Fairy Garden and something like this would be perfect there. We live in CA along the beach, where are you finding these?

    6. sammylosee 11 months ago | reply

      This is so beautiful and inspiring! Thank you for sharing!

    7. Lance & Cromwell 9 months ago | reply

      Some of these rocks come from beaches in San Luis Obispo County, CA, but most are from beaches along the southern Oregon Coast. Best time for finding rocks is late winter after winter storms have pulled the sand off the beaches and exposed them. At the right time and on the right beach one can fill a 5-gallon bucket with rocks like these pretty quick.

    8. Beauty 4 Ashes 9 months ago | reply

      Those rocks are not painted?

    9. Lance & Cromwell 9 months ago | reply

      No, they are NOT painted. They get well polished by the sand and tides on the beaches. Add a bit of water and they look like they are polished and the natural colours are made brighter. The red and yellow rocks are jasper and the darker rocks (blue-green) are jade or rocks very similar to jade. A few are white quartz and petrified mytlewood. Trying to paint rocks would be a silly waste of time given the natural beauty they come with. Rocks like these can be found on many beaches along the Pacific coast. These were found in San Luis Obispo County, California, and in Coos and Curry County, Oregon.

    10. Beauty 4 Ashes 8 months ago | reply

      Awesome, thank you so much!!!

    11. Janet Murphy2013 2 months ago | reply

      stunning work!! Very inspiring, if only I lived near the ocean! Maybe on vacation but I suspect the airlines would kill me with overweight charges on luggage *lol* (though I have been known to bring home a rock or ten in the past *lol*)

    12. Lance & Cromwell 2 months ago | reply

      I understand all too well. I'm a rock-a-holic in need of therapy. But I love working with rocks, making rock walls, pathways like this picture, etc. Problem is I no longer have the stamina but I still get a few things done.

    13. KirbyCho 2 months ago | reply

      Wow...this made my day!

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