Nature is the finest sculptor. Image: Su Leslie 2018I’ve never grown out of the desire to pick up (and bring home) random beautiful objects I find while out walking.
Auckland’s coastal geology is predominantly sandstone, a rock easily smoothed and eroded. I love the spare, sculptural forms that result.
Zimmerbitch 
I like this a lot too – and wonder where you will put it – ?
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It’s been sitting in a box of similar “finds”, waiting for me to clear a shelf for all my found treasures.
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oh – right on – and the right shelf will make it a special place to brush on by
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Jack is a picker upper and we have a dry river bed of stones he has accumulated
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I’d definitely collect more, but often the best finds are away from home when I’m not travelling by car. Air NZ may be quite generous with their baggage allowance, but it doesn’t run to carting rocks back to Auckland.
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Can quickly exceed your baggage limit too…
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What a lovely stone. It looks like sculpture. And I suppose it is.
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🙂 Nature often does a much better job of art than we can.
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Always—we are just here to imitate and reinterpret ( and sadly, to destroy).
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😦 I wish that wasn’t true, but I don’t have to look far to see exactly that.
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It looks well rounded. It must have been in water a long time?
Leslie
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That is one highly desirable objet. If I’d been there with you, we might have had to toss for it 🙂
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Hehe. I seem to remember the beach was rather generously endowed with desirable rocks that day. Enough for both of us 🙂
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The beauty of seeing beyond the lines and colours of the obvious – you have such an eye for beautiful things!
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I love walking on the beach, or by rivers. I think I’m slightly obsessed with aged rocks. Better than aging rockers I suppose 🙂
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OMG! You are so funny!!!
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Sometimes something just feels so right in your hand.
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Yes! I’m normally drawn to smoother stones, but the shape of that one is just wonderful.
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I also love naturally created art and especially nature’s ability to sculpt scenery. 🙂
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Yes! A friend of mine is visiting Uluru at the moment, and seeing her photos makes me appreciate exactly that.
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Wow! How amazing. Now that’s a trip to envy. 😀
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😀 I guess I could cope at this time of year when it’s not quite as hot.
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True, good point.
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I would definitely have picked that up too, it’s a gorgeous find!! 😄 xxxxx
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🙂 sometimes I think I should abandon all notions of a tidy house and just let my collections of found stuff take over. I have artist friends whose house is wonderfully like a museum of curiosities. Some of the stuff ends up in their art, but a lot of it is just there for the sheer joy it brings. xxxxxx 🙂
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That sounds like a place I would love to visit! Your friend definitely is on the right track!! But if I abandon all notions of a tidy home it more or less will look like a tornado went through! 😀 xxxxxxx
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You can never bring too much nature home with you!
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Hehe. The Big T might disagree with that 😂
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snap!!
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Wonderful!
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