What struck me with this large piece of alluvial rose quartz was the dark line that looks like a distant mountain range. I place special personal value on stones that contain characteristics that drive thought/contemplation. I call it the personality of a stone. A factor that seems common to good suiseki is a rock provokes the viewer to wonder how time and geomorphological processes have come together to form it.
One of my favourite fossicking haunts is an old riverbed, now seperated from the river, where stones with exceptional patina can be found. This once glassy chalcedony has a baked sand-blasted feel caused over a long period exposed to weather and wind blown granite sand.
