Love those heart rocks
Love those heart rocks
I have been collecting heart rocks for several years. I’m not sure why I started, I think I just kept finding them and a collection grew. We are always looking for rocks anyway when we hike or wander, and heart rocks are just awesome.
Al has been the best heart rock finder lately. He has found me some great ones, just in the past week or so.
This heart rock is about 3 inches across, and is one he found the morning of the bighorn sheep adventure. I love it!! And it’s so different on both sides.
Kinda smoothish on this side.
And very knobbly on this side.
Al also helped me arrange most of my heart rocks into a heart shape, for a cool photo.
Tomorrow we have to leave and go to the big city (or big shitty as we say) for our last art show of the winter. (insert sad face here) I’m going to miss this place. I go through this every time we leave.
But the desert has really given us her finest this last couple of weeks. From wildlife, to birds, to flowers and even rocks.
We will be in Carefree Friday-Sunday at the Sonoran art festival. If you are near by, stop and say hello. My new blog friend Ingrid, and her husband Al, from Live Laugh, RV are going to come meet us at the show. It’s always great to meet online friends in person.
Then early next week we will start our meander up north.
Love the rocks and LOLing at The Big Shitty. Have a wonderful Wednesday.
Best wishes Molly
Love the heart rocks! My mom collected them for years and years. Then one day, she spread them in her rock garden (the Idaho garden). Your collection is pawsome.
And we LOVE your photos lately… been looking at them on Facebook!
:)
Tootsie
Thanks for liking the photos, it’s been pretty great here lately. Maybe someday I will have a place to spread my heart rocks in a garden.
Oh how metaphoric this collection of hearts is, Mary! Like these rocks, human hearts come in all textures and sizes, depending on what life has tumbled them through. VERY metaphorical. And back to the city for ya? Yes, I am finding out too as I get older, that you just have to keep up the pace. There is no other way. Wishing you the best. Anita
Yes human hearts are very much like heart rocks. Hopefully though the people in our lives have softer, less knobbly hearts.
I too have collected heart rocks for years, mostly since my daughters were little — I wrote a story for them about a girl with a heart of gold and a king with a heart of stone — and collecting heart rocks became my thing.
I love the heart of heart rocks Al helped you create — those are some amazing rocks!
To meet up with you in Sonoran, or anywhere, would be amazing! Happy trails to you to the big shitty! :) Love it!
I bet your story was great! Lot’s of people collect heart rocks, and I think it’s awesome.
Your heart rocks rock! Get it? I couldn’t resist. I can see how you could get hooked on doing that. As a guy I couldn’t collect hearts. Not very macho. But maybe I can get my wife interested and kind of help her from the sidelines. Who’d know?
We’ll be heading up Palm Canyon for four days this Saturday. It will be our first official boondock adventure other than one day at the Q a couple years ago. So looking forward to it and a bit nervous, too. Your posts from there have been a real treat to follow in preparing for the trip. Good luck with your art show and the trip North.
LOL…Thanks for that. You could collect heart rocks, I won’t tell. When you go up Palm canyon road, when you get about 2.5 miles look to your right and you will see the giant zen circle. There is lots of flat space there for camping, and it’s off the dirt road more. You are not quite to the actual KOFA at that point, but it doesn’t matter. From there, you can drive to palm canyon, or to the hike we did. That’s about 7 or 8 miles. Farther up the road flat camping spots are harder to find. The road is washboarded, so plan on driving slow. I’m jealous, I hope you have a great time.
Thanks for the tip on the Zen spot. I’ll give her a go if no one else is there when we arrive. We’ll be thinking of you guys.
Not to sound corny, but it looks like the desert is giving you its heart in return for the love you’ve given it. Those heart rock are incredible, I’d be collecting them too. I hope your time in the city turns out better than you’re expecting and that the show is a good one for you.
The desert is giving me it’s heart, that’s a wonderful thought. Thank you.
My daughter also collects heart rocks. Then she gives them to me and insists I keep them. :)
Good luck at the art show, and safe travels up north!
You must have a great collection to then.
I have found many heart shape rocks but don’t know where they are. Good wishes for art show.
love your heart rocks! i hope the show goes well!
Those are so cool! What a wonderfully unique treasure to collect, and I bet you remember where each and every one came from, too.
We love the heart pictures too and good luck at the art show. Love Dolly
You are so right about keeping up, Mary…it is wonderful most of the time!…:)JP
I <3 your heart rock collection! It makes me want to start a collection myself. But living in the "big shitty" :) like we do we don't come across too many free-range rocks. Good luck at the art show!
These are so cool! I love the teal colored heart sitting on the larger one. I’m kind of wishing these were for sale on Etsy, but you can’t put a price on heart-shaped rocks collected from all over. Very cool collection!
The teal one is a piece of turquoise I found last year. Ya, I can’t sell the rocks, but I am going to sell the photo.
Look forward to meeting you :-)
I love the heart rocks!!! The one that Al found is uniquely beautiful. Sorry about the big shitty but I do love your final quote!
The one you have pics of all alone almost looks like a dog treat of some kind :)
I have looked for heart-shaped rocks and know how hard they are to find – at least for me. So I am astounded to see the variety you have found!
Sorry you have to leave the desert and go back to the city. Hope this weekend’s sale is a great one for you.
Those rocks are indeed very beautiful.
I LOVE rocks! I have a nice “little” collection (John wouldn’t call it little) to display one day if we settle somewhere. I never thought about looking for heart shaped rocks. Now I have a new mission:) That latest heart find is beautiful. Great eyes, Al!
Have a wonderful time at the art festival. I am not enjoying being in this rather over crowded area at all. Maybe we’ll venture up your way to check out the art show and meet up. You’ll love meeting Ingrid!! She is wonderful:)
Yes, that would great! I love meeting my invisible friends. Hopefully this rain will quit and we can actually set up our tent.
I love your collection!
How special! :)
Best of luck at the show Mary!
Your heart rocks are super cool.
I love the photo of your heart rocks together. Leave it to you two artists to come up with that. :)
It kind of amazes me how many you have actually found!