What is it about wet rocks on a beach that makes them so alluring? Is it because there are no two rocks the same? In some way, do they remind us of people – each with their own personalities, color, and character? Is it because its particular shape or color triggers something in our own memories? Is it because water seems to bring them alive and refreshed, like all other life on Earth? Is it possible to feel a connection with such an inanimate object? Of course, telling someone they have the personality of a rock could be taken as quite an insult. But each of these rocks has quite a story to tell, and I am sure pretty interesting, if they could ever tell it. How did that rock get those red circles or strange spots? Where has it been? Why is the line formed this way vs. that way? Some of them old, some of them new, some plain, some quite varied within. Of course a geologist would rattle off a thousand reasons why a rock takes on its particular look, and tell its story for it. For the rest of us – we can simply wonder, admire, and appreciate another object of nature that stimulates our curiosity.
