A sculpture garden at Shilparamam, Hyderabad displays amazing art carvings in stone
Creating Art in Stone
A Picture in Stone
Creating Art in Stone
Tag Archives: stone
Green Growth in Stone
Stone Walls of the Lake District – walls made without cement still standing after hundreds of years. Growth in between the stones adds beauty to the walls.
Dry Stone Wall
Green Growth in Stone
Stone Wall Roots
A Pasture Enclosure from the Past
A stone fence guards the pasture in the Lake District, England
A Pasture Enclosure from the Past
A Window from the Past
A stone window in the Abbot’s House at Muchelney Abbey, Somerset, England
A Window from the Past
Muchelney Abbey and Abbott’s House
Founded in 7th or 8th century, Muchelney Abbey is a landmark in Somerset. It was once a wealthy Benedictine house and the second oldest religious foundation in Somerset, but as part of the dissolution the abbey’s principal buildings were demolished by Henry VIII in 1538. The Abbey was the second largest in Somerset after Glastonbury, England.
Muchelney Abbey
The only intact structure is the Abbot’s House with well-preserved architectural features including external stonework and inside a great chamber with ornate fireplace, carved settle and stained glass, and timber roof.
Muchelney Abbey Abbott’s House
What is Behind the Gate?
An intriguing combination of stone walls and arches covered with ivy, but leading to a locked gate. What pastures lie behind the gate in the English countryside?
Forbidden Pastures
Arches Leading to the Door
Symmetry of stone arches leading to the door at Duke Chapel, Raleigh, North Carolina. Impressive in both color and black & white images.
Leading to the Door
Doorway Arches
Stone Arches
The simple yet attractive design of stone arches at Duke Chapel in North Carolina
Stone Arches
Forbidden Door
A chain blocks the entrance to a door but can’t hide the beauty of ornate, stone arches at Duke Chapel in North Carolina
Forbidden Door
Harrisburg – Market Street Bridge on Susquehanna River
Built in 1928, the Market Street Bridge is a stone arch bridge that spans the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg and Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg – Market Street Bridge on Susquehanna River
Fall Colors Around Rock Formations
A Fall landscape with leaf colors and stone formations ….
Fall Colors Around Rock Formations
Machu Picchu – Stonework
Machu Picchu – Stonework
The central buildings of Machu Picchu use the classical Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape. The Incas were masters of this technique, called ashlar, in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. Many junctions in the central city are so perfect that it is said not even a blade of grass fits between the stones.
Gathering Moss
Gathering Moss
Since this stone is not rolling it is definitely gathering moss