We had to put in a new retaining wall and fix a drainage problem which required a lot of dirt moving and unearthed tons of rocks. Literally. The entire project was supposed to take a week. It took over a month. I just wrote the final check.

I began noticing many smooth rocks were being unearthed. The kind of rocks that are gentle to bare feet. The Mexican guys who did most of the work must have thought I was nuts, stacking piles of silty stones along the new retaining wall, but I grew up in Nevada where rock collecting used to be a very popular hobby. Admittedly most people were looking for arrowheads.

Amazing what you can find in nature. An art gallery once the silt of ages is washed away.