I personally like the look of the deeper cuts. It is much more architecturally interesting of a look. Invest in a blower and clean up will be a snap. Looking good on your ole homestead.

Thanks! 

Unfortunately, the pine needles get wedged in there tight and will have to be picked out with something.  Hopefully the solidifying sand will keep the individual stone look while turning solid and keeping weeds from growing and debris from getting caught in the cracks.  Not sure if they have different colors, but will check into it.

TinkerT,
This is beautiful. I know you are pleased as punch at the outcome.I love the mixture of colored stones and bricks.
Once more I am so envious of your wonderful talent.

Forgot to tell you a fried and her dad built a base for a green house and they wanted to make sure that there would be drainage as there would be a lot of water. They used regular red brick 12 x 12 stones and once they places they filled in around with playground sand. It worked great as the sand helped to keep it drained. I am sure you have thought of this but sense it worked so well and I remembered I thought I would mention it What made me think about it was the bricks on both sides that helped hold the sand from washing away.

I think it would probably work better that way inside something.  Sadly, the bricks of the patio used to have sand between them and ended up with a lot of grass and weeds trying to grow between them all the time.  This is a little reduced by putting the bricks as tight together as possible, but still happens some.  To compensate for drainage though I am mostly just trying to keep everything slightly angled away from the house to move water into the grass anyway.  

how pretty, you did a fantastic job

Thanks!  Eventually the yard might start looking like "I meant to do that". 

Sorry didn't think about the weeds growing up through the sand. I should have thought about even when we put down plastic under my walk way there were weeds still growing through the plastic.
Your work is so just right.

LOL… I only thought of it cause it was already happening, and now I realize I should have left small gaps and poured in this special solidifying sand in-between since the weeds are still trying to grow in the tiny cracks between bricks.  But…. Don’t think there is any way I will be re-doing all that work  on the patio now.  The big question is… do I go forward with the rest of the patio the same way so it looks the same, or do it “right”?  Just don’t know at this point.

I can't help but believe that with weed spray and time for the ground to get as hard as bricks under your walk that the weeds will give up and stop growing.  I have been spraying weed around my garden boxes and finally I am getting fewer and fewer weeds. Now of course  I almost didn't write my words down for fear the weeds could here my words and start growing out of spite LOL
Maybe if you can live with yourself then finish as you have now started LOL