Stone Stacking

Recently, on the top of Mt. Peak, someone restarted a tradition from a few years ago: stone-stacking. This is simply the building of small towers or stacks of smooth stones, as a simple art form and landmarker.

The stacks have a charm to them, maybe because of the simplicity of them evoking childhood, and just the fact someone is taking the time to make a little something without real self-reward. They seem to be made for no other reason than to create a little wayside fancy for other hikers' eyes:

Fairy stacks, made from fairy stones.