Bits and Pieces

I am sure many rock balancers are familiar with this experience… especially those who have one or many ritual stacking spots..  One thing I like to do OFTEN is to switch up where I am working on the creek.  Each new place, even if shifted by a few meters, will yield a completely new library of rocks. I consider this to be very lucky in my case. Boulder is IDEAL for any dedicated stacker. Anyway…

A cool part of revisiting my favorite spots years later is sometimes stumbling across a distinct rock that I used before… Sometimes I have even found these rocks down-creek by up to 5 meters depending on size… The reason this happens is because of the creek’s annual spring rush, which happens usually every May-June when snow run-off builds up in the creek valleys..  The creek usually rages for up to a month depending on the winter’s snow fall..

With this picture I hope to demonstrate how some balances are closely related to past experiences… Here, there are 2 separate balance experiences in the past that feed into the more recent creation. The rock in the red circles is the same, but just on a different balance point.  Same for the rock circled in black.  Just a different pattern with similar building blocks..  yielding a completely different looking creation.. :D