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Pocket Rocks: Lily

My family are rock pickers. Mom's a century farm kid, Stearns County, “the land of rocks & cows" where fields sprout rocks before they...

The Schist of Gathering Garnet

If you want to rock and roll on home with a pocket brimming with Idaho purple garnets, there are few basic things to know. First, garnets...

The Holleywood Likelihood

Love is a friend putting extra blackberries in your morning oatmeal upon hearing you refer to fruit as "nature's candy." That same flush...

Tips to Get You Hounding

Ya'll, it's been a hot minute since last I smelt the sweetness of petrichor, stood waist-deep in gravish hole, or romped atop the vast...

Rockosophy Generosity

Couple things: When the day finally comes that I have compiled enough rock tales to bring my anthology to life, I'm gonna title it...

Stone Soup

Way, way back when I was just a wee tot, rambling around the decorative gravel at my grandparent's Illinois home, there was a dish best...

Tuff Nuts to Crack: A Thunder Egg Story

Prepare yourself & hold on to your butt, because this is the epic tale of how we, Alex Jensen and I, went digging for balls of colored...

Pocket Rocks

That groups of people will always have a thing, is basically all I know about people and things. Pocket rocks are one of these valuable...

Wood You Rather?

Wood can turn into opal. Guys. I'm not just blowin' smoke up your skirts, here, this is real life. Opalized wood is a thing and I found...

Agate it!

Here is a funny joke I came up with, amidst hour 4 of my 5 hour trek back from Cowlitz County, on the second weekend in July, in the...

Rock Rat

Welcome! I am the Rockosopher, the Rock Rat, the author. A common species of philosophizing gym rat rockhound often seen romping betwix rubble and wildlife in search of minerals, birds, or answers to inquires big & small. Poke around, share, and hit up the contact page with what you'd like to see!

Birds, Rocks, Bliss