Challenge: Rocks...Rock on...On the rocks...Rock around the? - July 15-19
Jul 14, 2019 20:49:13 #
Ever been between a ROCK and a hard place. Well if you have this challenge is for you. Some people collected rocks from their travels, like my Mother-in-law, to place in their landscape at home. Don’t tell anyone but she even had a few collected from the sanctity of some of our National Parks……shhhhhh!
I’ve always been enamored with the rocks in our world. May be why I ended up engineering with them in precast concrete as my close out career. All those rocks that went into a concrete mix were pretty small, but in my youth I was always blown away with really big rocks especially when we visited Colorado on vacations. You could climb on some, run around some, hide among others, and just view in awe the really big ones.
I know you got’em, and I really like’em, so come on and share them with me.
I’m not like my mother-in-lawn. The rocks I collect from places we’ve been are small so I can put them in a glass container…. Ok there are a few small pieces drift wood found on a secluded beach in the jar too …
I’ve always been enamored with the rocks in our world. May be why I ended up engineering with them in precast concrete as my close out career. All those rocks that went into a concrete mix were pretty small, but in my youth I was always blown away with really big rocks especially when we visited Colorado on vacations. You could climb on some, run around some, hide among others, and just view in awe the really big ones.
I know you got’em, and I really like’em, so come on and share them with me.
I’m not like my mother-in-lawn. The rocks I collect from places we’ve been are small so I can put them in a glass container…. Ok there are a few small pieces drift wood found on a secluded beach in the jar too …
….and I know, but there wasn’t any rocks in that cotton field in North Carolina so I snitched a cotton boll to add to the collection.
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At least one in the container is from agate beach on the North Central California coast where all these shiny wet pebbles showed some sparkle here and there.
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Really like how Mother Nature prepares some of her jewels just for me. Well sometimes a jealous scallop shell jumps in the rock bag.
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Jul 14, 2019 21:35:56 #
You want rocks, we got 'em! Take a look.........
Morro Rock, Morro Bay, CA on a clear day
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Morro Rock with clouds
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Morro Rock with sea otters in the harbor
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The "Last Call" band rocks too....
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Jul 14, 2019 22:40:46 #
Rocks used for building at Chaco Canyon and some river rocks.
Jul 14, 2019 22:55:11 #
katspangle wrote:
Rocks used for building at Chaco Canyon and some river rocks.
...I just have a small rock... but it has its own name...they call it the Star of India...
Jul 14, 2019 22:56:11 #
chase4 wrote:
You want rocks, we got 'em! Take a look.........
Very nice Chase, we were by there a lot of years ago when the kids were quite young. I'd have to dig out some old photo or slides to find my shots of Morro Rock, but I've got some somewhere.
Jul 14, 2019 23:07:25 #
katspangle wrote:
Rocks used for building at Chaco Canyon and some river rocks.
Love them all katspangle. Good work on the Chaco Canyon shot and the last one has very interesting striations.
Jul 14, 2019 23:08:50 #
SkyKing wrote:
...I just have a small rock... but it has its own name...they call it the Star of India...
And a Beauty she is SkyKing. Who couldn't like her!
Jul 14, 2019 23:21:37 #
Among the rocks you find surprises sometimes.
Like a few UHH friends you just met in Portland coming out of the fog among the granite bolders atop Cadilac Mountain in Acadia NP.
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Or someone in a slot canyon who will take a photo of you with your own camera.
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Recently caught a couple of strangers among the rocks in Joshua Tree NP.
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Jul 14, 2019 23:28:27 #
lhammer43 wrote:
Ever been between a ROCK and a hard place. Well i... (show quote)
Great start, Larry, and thank you for hosting.
I know I have rocks in my head, but I couldn't find the x-ray, so
I'll just start out with some interesting rocks and rock structures
we came across on our very first trip to Aruba.
Tim
Some rock outcroppings were host to quite a few critters
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One of several natural rock bridges carved out by the ocean's unrelenting power
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Aruba is more of a desert island than it is a tropical island, so there are rocks everywhere. Notice all the rocks piled up by visitors hoping for wealth and/or fertility...
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Part of an old dwelling or fort, perhaps...
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"Gorilla" rock, carved out by the constant 15-20mph winds in most areas
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A Divi-Divi tree struggling to survive among the rocks and constant winds
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These rock outcropping provide the perfect pool in which to swim on the north side of the island; it's the only safe place to swim on that side ...
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Jul 14, 2019 23:31:16 #
lhammer43 wrote:
Among the rocks you find surprises sometimes.
Pg 1 - Love both of these shots, Larry. It had to be fun to be able
to meet and spend time with all those wonderful people from UHH,
and that second image is a keepsake!
Tim
Jul 14, 2019 23:37:16 #
Rolk wrote:
Great start, Larry, and thank you for hosting.
I know I have rocks in my head, but I couldn't find the x-ray, so
I'll just start out with some interesting rocks and rock structures
we came across on our very first trip to Aruba.
Tim
I know I have rocks in my head, but I couldn't find the x-ray, so
I'll just start out with some interesting rocks and rock structures
we came across on our very first trip to Aruba.
Tim
Good ones Tim. Like them all...The natural bridge our land excursion took there had collapsed, so no longer bridging anything.
Jul 14, 2019 23:46:17 #
lhammer43 wrote:
Ever been between a ROCK and a hard place. Well i... (show quote)
Great Kick off Larry, I wonder how many Rock Hounds we Have here??
Jul 14, 2019 23:47:44 #
chase4 wrote:
You want rocks, we got 'em! Take a look.........
Nice set of Morro Rock..Pg. 1
Jul 14, 2019 23:48:20 #
Jul 14, 2019 23:48:28 #
I really like things on the rocks...
like a grand daughter on a carved one contemplating what to do next.
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or wife wondering "will he ever come down out of that lighthouse?"
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or this guy looking for a better view.
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Even a little spirit from time to time on the rocks is good.
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