One of the last landscape jobs I did at the Williams Dr. home was to build a stone wall at the entry drive. This extended to the corner of the garage with a gate for access to this side yard. The builder had enclosed most of it with a cement block wall as seen here running to the right out of the picture.
The gate for this wall was a special design that JoAnn developed and I built. It will be the topic of another post.
The stone for this wall was local, much of which came from the swimming pool excavation. I had several loads of this dirt and rock dumped in this yard, just to the right of this view, I then set up a screen and sieved the rock from the dirt which I used to level out the yard. The rock varied from pea gravel size to good sized stones like shown being used in this photo. The sieving process is shown in the photo below.
The ground throughout this area was filled with stone, so I didn't lack for building material and I liked the look of the stone walls in contrast with the block walls.
*More detail on my art can be found at my website <www.apatchablue.com>
Also, my autobiography, volume 2, which will be coming out next year has more detail on this period in my life. The link to my books on the publisher's web site is: http://www.wheatmark.com/catalog/entry/Which-Road-Should-I-Follow-Volume-I-Growing-up-in-the-Country
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