Yesterday, driving home, something caught my eye, and I just had to stop, get out of the car and go check it out. What I saw was a rock covered in tears! I could not believe my eyes! It was the light glinting off the tears that caught my eye!
Without further ado, the crying rock:
What caught my eye
Why so sad little rock? What caused you to cry so many tears?
What caused you to cry little rock?
Look at all those tears!
The tears up close
This was an odd sight indeed! Why do you think this rock is crying? I would love to hear your answer!
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Beautiful photos!
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I believe it was the temperature of the rock combined with shade ? Lovely post! Please advise?
Sap. Thank you!
HA !!
Shhh!
Weird!
Isn’t it?
Are the tears liquid or solid, loose or imbedded? What an unusual sight!
It was a crying rock! What do you think caused it?
Okay, are you trying to thwart my attempts at scientific inquiry? I see. We’re going New Age here. So, what would make a rock cry? Well, personally, I think he’s been orphaned. Yup. The year was 782 B.C. There was a sudden seismic jolt of great magnitude causing ruptures in the Earth’s surface. Deep fissures formed in his rock of origin. He was torn away from his mother and cast down the mountainside to live alone and friendless in hostile terrain, alongside rocks not of his own kind. In all these years, he’s never gotten over it. But, in rock psychology, that’s understandable, because rocks don’t like change and only do so over long periods of time under the influence of great pressure or from the constant harassment of the elements. But a cataclysmic event such as this? That would break any rock’s heart, don’t you think?
You have it absolutely correct Marcy! LOL – 🙂
An interesting find!
Gosh – I would like to know the answer to that too?
Stay tuned!
sits under a pine tree?
Shhh!
I am not a geologist and don’t know anything about minerals or rocks, but I do know there is a lot of quartz around the Placerville area so that is one possibility…. and quartz jewelry is often shaped as tears, so maybe there is a connection.
Close but no cigar! Thank you for your thoughts!
The crying rock was probably shedding tears as it cannot move, it stays in one spot for eternity, a prisoner so to speak, unless nature or man decides it is time to be somewhere else.
T hat must be the answer!