August 21, 2000
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I get into work this morning, and the second thing Duane says to me is that he’s disappointed that I haven’t written anything about my vacation yet. Yeesh! Anyway, here’s goes… For the past few years we’ve travelled out to the Shuswap area of British Columbia basically to plunk our butts on a quiet, sandy beach and throw the kids off a nearby dock into the crisp spring-fed lake. A couple of years ago during a somewhat dreary, overcast string of days, I started piling and balancing rocks that I had found along the beach on top of one another. Hundreds of them. These precarious rock sculptures have since become an annual project for me, part therapy, part artistic outlet. I was originally inspired by a self described rock-balancer that was doing his boulder twiddling gig at our annual excuse to wear ill-fitting western garb, the Calgary Stampede. I don’t know if it’s the same guy mentioned in this North Country Times article, but you get the drift. It’s just something that you need to do for yourself and see with you own eyes to completely appreciate. The best part about building these things is that in a couple days after I’ve added my initial constructions to the lake side, they seem to spontaneously reproduce. Other sculptures appear overnight, obviously created by other vacationers who stumble across the teetering piles. I promise I will post a couple of photographs of my rock balancing escapades as soon as the film comes back from the lab. The lab? Yes, the lab… Mr. Gizmo simply doesn’t trust himself taking his digital cameras to the beach.
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