Garden Week 2025 Stones

I have the honor of carving several stones for the gardens featured in the Albemarle County Virginia Garden Week event. Here are images of the process of carving the stones and lettering.

Set of four complete

one of the other stones

nearly finished

One of the iterations of designing lettering

beginning carving

First stone shaped

The raw pieces of soapstone to be used

Sample letter in soapstone (a stone local to the Albemarle County area, from the quarry in Schuyler, VA)