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My Dream

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Igneous Rock Gallery Haiku Contest Guidelines

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6/14/2011
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6/14/2011
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6/14/2011
New and Improved Landscape Lights

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Spring Haiku Contest Winner Announced!

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3/24/2011
Simply the Best?

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2011 PA Home Show Special

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Remembering Rick Alcorn

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2/16/2011
Rest In Peace, Rick Alcorn

2/09/2011
Counting Past 130 and Balancing Rocks

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2/09/2011
PA Home Show

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2/09/2011
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I'm A Rock Star

10/15/2010
Sid and Gena's Indoor Fountain Sculpture

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Igneous Rock Gallery Traveling Dog and Pony Show

9/07/2010
2010 Summer Haiku Winner Announced

9/07/2010
Igneous Rock Gallery Harrisburg Fall Home Show Exhibit/One Million Dollar Cash Giveaway!

8/10/2010
This One Could Be Yours

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Summer 2010 Haiku Contest Deadline Extended

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Jerry and Crystal Created Their Own!

7/13/2010
She Stole My Heart

7/13/2010
Table Top Fountain Workshop

6/17/2010
New Fountains

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Do You Want to Meet My Dad?

6/14/2010
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My Impending Incarceration

6/6/2010
Spring 2010 Haiku Contest Winner Announced!

3/20/2010
First Quarterly Haiku Contest!

3/13/2010
Honorable Mention at 2010 Philadelphia International Flower Show

3/12/2010
Video of Valley Forge Display

This One Could Be Yours



The tallest piece in this grouping is an example of our new capability to offer columns over 48" in height. At 60" he towers above the darker one to his left. (That's your right! Sometimes we look at things from the rock's perspective!)

This grouping has not yet been made into a fountain, as we may decide to sell it first and pour its concrete foundation on site. Although arranged in a linear fashion for the camera, we will probably triangulate them just a bit when they become a fountain.

Just so I don't have to keep referring to the tallest piece in this grouping as "the tallest piece in this grouping" let's call him "Rocco". When Rocco arrived from the quarry I wondered how I would ever use him, given his odd physique, not to mention his strangely bi-racial appearance.

I hate to use the words "strangely" and "bi-racial" in the same sentence, but if you look at his back side it obviously drew from a different side of the gene pool than his front. Except on Star Trek, I've never seen a bi-racial person who was one race from one vantage point and a different race entirely as viewed from the other side!

If you look closely you can see that his head is not centered above his feet and he is widest in his torso. Yet he stands that way on his own, without a shim, and with no danger of falling over.

I ignored Rocco for months, except for when I had to move him out of the way to get to the more comely columns behind him. OK, I admit it. I was starting to resent him. I didn't say anything, but he probably picked up on it anyway.

The other day I finally hauled him out to the middle of the room to decide what the heck to do with him.


Coincidently, the 48 incher pictured next to him (let's call her "Petra") happened to be standing nearby, and her stout base presented an interesting complement to Rocco's slender base. I also like the way her darker color contrasts with and accentuates Rocco's lighter side (above) when tucked in behind him a bit. Rocco's profile has great movement down that side, which would be lost if Petra were the same color.

Next I handled probably thirty or forty columns, adding pieces and creating arrangements with as many as seven members. But I kept stripping it down to Rocco and Petra. It just wasn't working with additional columns, nor was this pair complete without at least one more added component.

That is when I separated some 36" columns that were all clustered together in the corner of the room, hiding one another. Alas, there he was! Rocco's lost son, Rocky. Not that he would ever want to, but Rocco could not deny his little boy, now could he?

As soon as Rocky took his place next to his Dad I knew this was it. I was done. Complete. Perfecto! Adding anything would add nothing. Now it is simply a matter of arranging the spacing for the best effect.

I can see it now in my mind's eye - up lit at night, the falling illuminated water glistening and accentuating the dramatic lines and composition of this very cool fountain sculpture arrangement.

This one could be yours, but I may want visitation rights.

Hurry, before I get more attached!