My Stepping Stone Garden

I love my stepping stone garden! Originally intended to be a grandchildren handprint garden, it has grown into far more than that.

It has some "just because" stones that the grandchildren have made, too. See Braden's on the far right? And the one commemorating Hurricane Irma? 

Just because they have one that I made with their handprints (or footprints) doesn't mean that they don't want to make another.

Zeus' pawprints are there, and that "family stone" was Addie's idea - everyone who was present added a decoration.

 Oh the memories that flood back as I look at them all!

 Can you see JC's name done in white glass ornaments and his footprint right in the middle?

 Lukie's stone is our most recent. I still need to get Susie and I think I need Titan, too.

The back two here were made after others had been finished and we had leftover concrete to use up. That happens every now and then.

 Addie commemorated the date that we made some "just because" stones - they were here on September 11, 2017 as Hurricane Irma was roaring across Florida and they had come north to be safe with us.

It is getting harder and harder to find space for the stepping stones. And, there are an additional seven or eight that went home with the people who made them for their own gardens.

 Both Mila's and Cambria's are a little overshadowed by the tulips that are growing beside theirs.

 I've thought that it might be fin to make a pathway to a fountain or garden in the back yard using these stepping stones, but I've decided that I don't want anyone walking on them lest the stones crack and break.

After all, they really are treasures to me.