We always enjoy our trips to Lake Superior. We never grow tired of sitting on the rocks, watching the waves roll in. Or crash in…depending on the weather.
And I seem to always get caught up in looking at the rocks…large and small, that roll onto shore with the waves. I love how the rocks feel so smooth after years and years of tumbling in the water. I like their colors too.
For years we had a great spot, near a cabin we rented, where we could collect fairly large stones and brought them home; a few each year. We used them to line our back garden.
I also have accumulated smaller rocks that I pocketed here and there. They were adding up so I started to place them around our front flowers, but due to some work we had done recently we had to remove them. I took the smooth stones and created a new apron for our shed.
The original shed apron was a conglomeration of pieces of limestone and other rocks I’ve found in the area. Over the years I just started putting them by the door of the shed and it eventually formed an apron. I liked the idea and decided to pull out all the old mismatched rocks and remake the apron with our pretty Lake Superior Rocks.
It was a fun project and I was pleased with the result.
Very pretty.
Thanks Connie.
Great idea! Lovely.
Thank you Sue. Bring back memories?
I like this look and this reminder now of the North Shore. I also love rock collecting, an interest instilled in me by great uncles who were rock hounds.
That’s fun to know about you…where do you keep your rocks?
So nice
What have those stones witnessed…
geology of millennia can make us feel small and insignificant
…. or part of a Big Story
Interesting! Love this…
I, too, have rocks I collected from Lake Superior. There is something so lovely about things of the earth that we can use to decorate our home. Rocks seem to fascinate us, from childhood onward. You did a beautiful job with the rocks, Valerie!
Thanks Sheri. I like to use outdoors to decorate inside when I can, although these rocks were outside of course.
Love this post Valerie! My sister and brother-in-law who live in Arizona now (where it has been over 100 for weeks) collected many rocks each time they traveled north to Nannibajou.
I wonder if they brought their rock collection to AZ?