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12/14/2011
A Work In Progress

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Autumn 2011 Haiku Contest WINNer Announced!

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My Dream

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Have You Seen Teddy's Fountain?

10/03/2011
Igneous Rock Gallery Haiku Contest Guidelines

10/03/2011
Summer 2011 Haiku Contest Winner Announced!

6/14/2011
WPMT FOX 43 Visits Igneous Rock Gallery!

6/14/2011
Video of Current Inventory

6/14/2011
New and Improved Landscape Lights

6/14/2011
Spring Haiku Contest Winner Announced!

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Fountain to be Auctioned at Derby Day!

3/24/2011
Simply the Best?

3/24/2011
An Enduring Tribute

3/11/2011
2011 PA Home Show Special

3/11/2011
Remembering Rick Alcorn

3/11/2011
Winter Haiku Contest Winner Announced! / Spring Contest Entries Welcomed

2/16/2011
Rest In Peace, Rick Alcorn

2/09/2011
Counting Past 130 and Balancing Rocks

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Autumn Haiku Contest Winner / Winter Contest Submission Deadline

2/09/2011
PA Home Show

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Igneous Rock Gallery Fountain Design Party Discounts!

2/09/2011
Sedimentary Rock Gallery?

11/17/2010
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Autumn 2010 Haiku Contest

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One Thing Leads to the Next…

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I'm A Rock Star

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

9/07/2010
Vacation Musings/Balancing Work and Play

9/07/2010
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

8/2/2010
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

6/15/2010
Do You Want to Meet My Dad?

6/14/2010
The Year of the Creep

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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

2010 Summer Haiku Winner Announced


Robert's cousin Jim, here.

Thanks for all the submissions to the Summer Haiku Contest. Summer proves to be a very busy season indeed, with many memorable outdoor activities along the way. Your haiku entries creatively portrayed the integral, rich aesthetic palette that Igneous Rock Gallery water features contribute to the enjoyment of this season, and the downright beauty, peace and joy they provide! Once again it's our pleasure (and challenge) to choose from a wide and interesting assortment.

The majority also met the contest criteria of proper haiku structure, including references to both the current season and to our products. It is from those entries our winner was chosen and we are delighted to present.

The Summer 2010 Igneous Rock Gallery Haiku Contest Winner:

Fire-born rock now rests
Serene under water's flow;
Refuge from the heat

Randy Reardon

Congratulations, Randy!

Technically superb and poetically captivating, we found Randy's haiku striking on many different levels -- with a fully developed dynamic marvelously present at each level and line.

First, there is the stunning and unmistakable geologic life cycle of igneous rock -- each line dynamic, distinct, gorgeous -- splashed with its own palette of colors and sound, temperature and time.

There's also a seamless rhythm of syllables and words, of imagery and meaning. An onomatopoeia of cadence, if you will, from line to line. The rough, mono-syllabic staccato of fiery, tumultuous creation -- and yet now in the stillness of rest... all in Line 1! The calming of eons peacefully traced in Line 2's languid and measured cadence... And resolution comes once again, as if a sigh of relief, in Line 3's juxtaposition of the relaxed 'refuge' against the staccato of 'from the heat'. The rhythm indeed has its own language.

Finally, we were struck by its natural symbolic relevance. Modern life has its pressured and strenuous moments, requiring refuge, rest, reflection and revitalization, does it not? Will the toils of our labor reap, with perseverance and time, their due reward? How about the reward of learning (or surviving!) some of life's harder lessons, gaining through the process deeper peace, richer colors, greater strength?

Then again, it's also just plain beautiful rock with peaceful, gurgling water playing over it, in the cool shade on a lazy summer's day....

Thanks for your submissions, and keep 'em coming! Next up - the Autumn Contest - with entries due by December 1st.

Enjoy!

Jim Turner
Igneous Rock Gallery