Up close and personal - Showing you my treasured rock from Egypt

[Mira]

A few years back I was very lucky to get to visit Cairo and the nearby desert, along with the pyramids.
I picked up this rock in the Nile delta, in the desert, beside low thorny bushes filled with dead locusts, and smuggled it home.

It is one of my most beautiful treasured possessions.

Usually I post my photos with the photographers, but after last week I wanted you to see what kind of things they threw and how necessary those head protections were.
:)
My rock weighs maybe 6-7 pounds.

In the last photo I added an alabaster egg from Cairo, and some sand I gathered in front of the Sphynx.

I hope you like these.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. The rock looks like a pregnant peanut.

Wonder how it got all pitted.
( nice to know I am not the only person who collects "memory rocks")

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. A very large squirrel's chew toy?

[Mira]

3. Yup. Pregnant peanut describes it well.

It also is indicative of the beauty of the rocks there. I could only bring a few. The peanut was heavy and hard to hide (one is NOT supposed to do that...)
I sat in my room at night and sorted through little rocks; deciding which to take along and which had to stay was very hard.

[lunatica]

4. Hey! I'm a rock collector for memories too

I was given a piece of the Berlin wall a few years back. It has a stamp on it showing the date. The stamp says Original Berliner Mauer 9.1.89. It's just a chunk of cement with what looks like graffiti spray paint and the stamp on the flat side.

I have a very nice collection after 30 plus years of gathering rocks and collecting them. They're all in a shallow basket which is over a foot wide on my coffee table. Rocks and sea shells.

[Mira]

6. That would be "Berliner Mauer" for what it's worth - Mauer is the German word for wall

I have one of those as well, but it is not inscribed.
Mine is on the mantle and very treasured just like yours!

[lunatica]

7. Thanks for the correction. I was able to correct it above

[Mira]

8. Good

The word "Hauer" would translate as to be a person who flogs people.
Hauen is a vernacular word for beating up on someone, so it matters.

:)

[formercia]

5. I brought home a Piece of the Rock

Gibraltar, that is. Drove there on a whim from the Spanish frontier. One of the people with me didn't have proper documentation, so we left him in no-man's land to stew.
I was rather disappointed with it, the rock was a crumbly Limestone with bits of sea shell.


Nice rock. My first thought was that it is a Meteorite.

[4_TN_TITANS]

9. It's been years since I studied rocks, but

I believe I see quite a bit of iron in that stone. Ouch!