16th September Collect Rocks Day

My friend from Momotimetoread sent me this quote because she knows that I cannot go past a good stone, leaf, or treasure from nature. On a walk on a beach last week I pocketed two stones, a small piece of driftwood and a piece of dried kelp root. They all made it home and now are part of my garden. My father was a science teacher with a passion for geology and we lived in a town famous for blowholes and columnar jointing. How could I not like rocks? So this day is especially celebratory... Collect Rocks Day. There are a lot of opportunities in the calendar to celebrate rocks and of course I have written about them before. Just put rocks in the search bar of my blog.

How to celebrate?

1. Collect some rocks.

2. Use a book to identify what you have found

3. Sort your rocks. What criteria did you use? size? colour? type?

3. Display your rocks (make a cairn or turn one into a pet rock)

4. Read some more ... about rocks.

Here's some recent books to get you started:

For more suggestions look at my Pinterest page.