Idle Minutes

Ahhhh, exercise. While most visitors to the Leita Thompson Memorial Park in Roswell, Georgia were there to walk or jog the woodlands trail for their exercise, I was their to exercise my sketching skills this Sunday afternoon. All the while happily keeping my lazy rear end parked in the comfy seat of my automobile.

My wife came along and read in her new book…something to do with deathly hallows and some kid named Harry who rides a broom for sport. And our doggie, Rosie, came along to exercise her lounging skills while stretched out in the back seat.

This fountain in the memorial garden interests me because it is built of stone. I’ve always admired the patience and skill required to build anything of substance out of stacked and mortared stones. It is a skill that at once requires thought in design, engineering, precision, layout, materials management, perseverance, and hand/eye coordination with simple tools. Your average person can’t produce stone masonry that is both beautiful and crafted to stand the test of time. It’s simply not the stuff of Home Depot clinics.