Your Favorite Rock

sweetiehound starting to shine! Member since June 2004 Posts: 36	Your Favorite Rock Oct 14, 2004 23:11:03 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetiehound on Oct 14, 2004 23:11:03 GMT -5 I would love to see pictures of your most favorite rock out of your collection and hear why it's your favorite. Sweetiehound

Cher In Memoriam Tumbling is addictive - Resistance is futile - You will be assimilated Member since August 2004 Posts: 14,072	Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 0:32:57 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cher on Oct 15, 2004 0:32:57 GMT -5 Mine would have to be this Laker because it's one of the nicest I've found. Cher
	The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin

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Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 1:41:38 GMT -5

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Post by Malkavic on Oct 15, 2004 1:41:38 GMT -5

Well, saw the post, and had to add my favorites... only problem is that I can't choose just one. So I've made a compilation of my favorite pieces right now...

From left to right: Top Row:
Desert Jasper, Pietersite

Second Row:
Deschutes Jasper (Biggs), Caramel Agate, Seraphinite

Bottom Row:
Ametrine

deepsouth fully equipped rock polisher He who rocks last rocks best Member since January 2004 Posts: 1,256	Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 3:05:50 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by deepsouth on Oct 15, 2004 3:05:50 GMT -5 My favorite rock is this fossil which was hard to get up the steep slope and also hard to get fitted in the saw. Jack

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Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 12:19:55 GMT -5

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Post by hermatite on Oct 15, 2004 12:19:55 GMT -5

I don't have a pic of my favorite rock...in truth it's a very ordinary round (probably granite) beach rock from the shores of Lake Ontario. But it comes with a story. When I turned 30 I was living in Toronto and it had to be the lowest point in my life. I was out of work, living hand to mouth with a former boyfriend (oh THERE'S a good idea) in a place where I didn't know anyone and where no one seemed to anxious to know me. My birthday came and...nothing... so I did what all newly minted 30o year old single broke women should do...I went shoppinig. well...I had no money so I can't really call it shopping. And I was wandering around the Danforth in Toronto and thought "hey...it's my BIRTHDAY!" ...I need to do something." So I went into a coffee shop and went up to the clerk and said "HI! it's my 3oth birthday and I'm here for my free gift!". Really I didn't expect much except for someone...anyone to wish me a happy birthday. And the clerk laughed and gave me one of the those teeny taster cups of coffee! Best coffee I ever had. So I went to a card store..."HI! It's my birthday and I'm here for my free gift!" and I got a BOW! a free BOW! And finally I wandered next door to one of those rock mineral stores...same story..and the woman laughed and reached down behind the counter and gave me this rock she had picked up the day before. I still have the rock AND the bow and a really lovely memory of my birthday that year. Okay...so...yeah...really it was begging if you think about it. But those people rescued me in a way. After that things turned around and I've never looked back. and that beach rock is still my favorite!

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Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 12:32:36 GMT -5

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Post by Banjocreek on Oct 15, 2004 12:32:36 GMT -5

Bravo!
That is a terriffic story.
It's amazing how rocks can help us recall so many moments in life.
I wonder if that is why God had Abraham and others built alters of rememberance with piles of stone?
Thanks for sharing, hermatite.

Ecclesiastes 3.5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain

Toad misunderstood rock expert Only rocks understand me. Member since September 2004 Posts: 12,798	Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 13:44:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Toad on Oct 15, 2004 13:44:08 GMT -5 Great story hermatite, and I like your quote too.
	Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Toad misunderstood rock expert Only rocks understand me. Member since September 2004 Posts: 12,798	Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 13:45:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Toad on Oct 15, 2004 13:45:41 GMT -5 Excuse my ignorance, deepsouth, but what is that a fossil of?
	Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Cher In Memoriam Tumbling is addictive - Resistance is futile - You will be assimilated Member since August 2004 Posts: 14,072	Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 13:49:50 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cher on Oct 15, 2004 13:49:50 GMT -5 Herm, that is better than any picture, thank you for sharing. I'm so glad that those little acts of kindness turned things around for you. Cher
	The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin

AgateHunter starting to spend too much on rocks LAKE SUPERIOR AGATE Minnesota State Gemstone Member since September 2004 Posts: 107	Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 17:59:58 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by AgateHunter on Oct 15, 2004 17:59:58 GMT -5 Like Cher, mine is also a laker. ;D Christopher
	"Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation." (Psalm 89:26 RSV)

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Your Favorite Rock Oct 15, 2004 19:54:01 GMT -5

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Post by deepsouth on Oct 15, 2004 19:54:01 GMT -5

Hi Toad , I have taken that fossil in rock to the club and no-one could identify it as to what species of tree it was.
I may have to ask a biologist if I ever meet one.

But it is from the south east of the South Island of New Zealand and a few hundred million years old I guess.

I just checked.... about 180 million years ago there was a forest in that area during the Jurassic era and several forests have re-established on top of the oldest found, to be destroyed by volcanic flods etc.

here is a link to information of that area

www.doc.govt.nz/Explore/001~Other-Places/013~Southland/Southern-Scenic-Route/Curio-Bay-and-Porpoise-Bay/index.asp#Fossils

enjoy

Jack

rockyraccoon no longer being taken for granite Member since December 2003 Posts: 7,980	Your Favorite Rock Oct 16, 2004 19:36:45 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 16, 2004 19:36:45 GMT -5 morrisonite - these are my favorites. kim