Rock Alaska Quarry
Part of my landscaping plan is to artfully arrange a few boulders in the woodchips along the driveway in the front of the studio, and plant hearty roses in between. I drove to Rock Alaska Quarry in Eagle River, Alaska, and selected a few small rocks and one larger boulder. The biggest one was about 1500 lbs., not quite a ton. It was very hard for me to visualize how these rocks would look in my yard, the quarry is huge, and the rocks I’ve selected are but a pebble in the bucket (so to speak). From the back of a dump truck they were unloaded into a pile, and I soon realized that they’d have to be rearranged. We moved them into place by wrapping a tow strap around each one and dragging it with our pickup truck.
More tomorrow.
Gail Niebrugge, Alaska Artist
