Put your favorite stone you have on this thread (doesn’t have to be suiseki)

[Forsoothe!]

You should be suspicious of any stone that comes with its own bag.

 

[PaulH]

My new favorite. i found it and cut it two weeks ago and just finished carving the daiza.

 

[PaulH]

Here's my other favorite. The other half of the same stone.

 

[penumbra]

Hey Paul, those are great. Is that native CA jade?

 

[jaco94]

Chrysanthemum stone
The patterns that appear from geological movements sometimes looks like chrysanthemum flowers, (or intergalactic warriors ) and stimulate the imagination.

 

[PaulH]

Hey Paul, those are great. Is that native CA jade?

I think its serpentine.

 

[penumbra]

I think its serpentine.

It is beautuful. If you bury it about a mile down and wait a couple hundred thousand years it will be jade.

 

[shinmai]

These all came from the same gravel bar on the Goodnews River in Alaska. I was with my best friend, fly fishing for silver salmon. I gathered the stones while walking off a shore lunch that involved fresh-out-of-the-water trout and a bottle of Krug champagne.

We flew in a DC-3 over the volcanoes and glaciers, and the stone at far left in particular reminds me of how the glaciers looked from the air.

 

[Underdog]

Not quite sure what to do or think about this one.

 

[hinmo24t]

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mr potato head

 

[Forsoothe!]

A couple well-placed beads and you can scare children...

 

[penumbra]

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Sour cream and chives.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Sour cream and chives.

Bacon bits, garlic and cheddar

 

[Underdog]

Makes me think of Planet of the Apes movies. Maybe do a root over with it. Couple holes go through and feeding a root through might be cool. shrug

 

[johnbaz]

A couple more that I like..

Orthocera fossil..

I bought this pot with a small Juniper in many many years ago, I only had it a couple of years before it expired!!, I saved the pot to have another go but the stone got broken, I epoxied it back on but I thing ceramic tile adhesive would have been better!

I'm not 100% sure what this is but I think it's slate with veins of something else through it, It was cheap from a bootsale and is the offcut from a large-ish garden water feature, They had lots, They were cut from the large rocks to give them a flat surface to stand on, These smaller bits were the waste!

This is an odd bit of rock that I was given, Looking from the end it's L shaped, The gent that gave it to me drilled the two holes to hold a tree down, I think keto is mixed up as in a slab planting, I don't actually know where this is at the moment!

Cheers, John

 

[Underdog]

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This one was buried under a Barberry this spring for root over rock

Mullet Man. LOL

 

[Underdog]

Kinda like this one.

 

[PaulH]

Since this old thread is revived, here's a new favorite I found. A picture stone I call old oak at sunset.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Since this old thread is revived, here's a new favorite I found. A picture stone I call old oak at sunset.

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Oh... My .... GOD!

 

[Underdog]

Since this old thread is revived, here's a new favorite I found. A picture stone I call old oak at sunset.

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Just WOW! Amazing Paul