#pudding stone

A Puddingstone Snuff Bottle, Together With a Turquoise Snuff Bottle, 18th/19th Century

More sprouts, and look at all those cool rocks too. 😮 When you live next to farm fields you get to browse for all kinds of rocks after the spring melt. The farmers are glad to have you pice them and you can find a whole smorgasbord of colors.

I have many pudding stones and other conglomerates here. Check out the one at the far left. It is half black and half tan colored.

Same old me, just with shorter hair after this morning. Thunderstorm is moving in and heading northeast. I missed a lightning bolt, I think those are harder to catch in a pic.

Just found a cool pudding stone right in the field, just laying there.

All nice and clean! This is the area I mentioned in this morning’s post, where I needed to get in and clean out. Many of the rocks come out of the fields behind the house. There is an assortment of pudding stones, gowganda tillites and other conglomerates. There is even a bright pink one about a foot to the left of the planter.

I cleaned out the planter too. All together I probably picked up about 2000 little stick pieces about the size of toothpicks. 🤨

These are a couple close ups of the rock garden I just finished reworking. These are not just any rocks. Many are Michigan rocks.

The lighter rocks with the red pieces compressed in are called Pudding Stones. These were formed by glacier action. These are hard to find.

Grey rocks with pink spots pressed in are Gowganda tillites. These are easier to find here than Pudding Stones. I also have a couple Petoskey stones in there.

I am almost done messing with the rock garden. Today will be a rest day, I was very sore when I got up this morning.

I’m out here revamping the rock garden.

It’s a dirty job and I’m the only one here to do it. I have big ones and a lot on small ones. That’s a big pudding stone there on the left.

Pudding stone I found in an old rock pile on the corner of my property.