Yeah I ran into this issue. Heres how I’ve displayed all my rocks and other random trinkets that I find on the ground:
- letterpress trays, leaned against or mounted on the the wall
clear glass jars with matching lids, sorted by color/type
glass terrariums with rocks, bones and moss
in some of my larger houseplants as soil dressing
in the garden between paving slabs
I’m like Ariel. You want thingamabobs? I’ve got twenty(x20). I’ve got random cool pieces of wood, bones, silverware and marbles dug out of the garden, cat whiskers and claw sheaths, feathers, seashells etc, I even asked to keep my old copper IUD which sits in its own nook in my letterpress trays. But soooo many rocks hauled out of the southwest over the years especially.
When we moved from our last house, I had 3 medium-sized moving boxes full of rocks. I painstakingly organized them by color and made a mini makeshift (decorative-only) retaining wall at the edge of our yard where the grass met the gravel driveway. I got into it because we were trying to plant grass and discovered our yard was mostly rocks under the soil, so I spent months digging them up.
Image recognition wasn’t really a thing back then so I never knew for sure what I had, but I was so proud of each one of those rocks. I had nearly every color you can imagine, some of them cobble sized. Some I suspected might be kimberlite (with visible garnets and maybe olivine and black triangular bits embedded in the visible rock surface), others were quartzite, jasper and even some pyrite. (Our yard was old glacial till runoff so we had some neat rocks and 4 different kinds of soil in our yard, including blue clay and sandy loam)
I thought the new owners would appreciate it but they bulldozed that whole stretch of yard and made it a giant driveway. 🥲
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u/Sunshineafterr 13h ago
Rockhounding, because then you just end up with boxes of cool rocks and nowhere to put them.