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Aunt D has lots of pretty roses. Some of them grow out of the ground...
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And some of them are in the ground! Can you spot the roses here?
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There they are! This is rose rock country. You can collect them...
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Rinse them off...
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And there they are! Roses! They are red from the iron in the sand around here.
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It's hard to believe that these have been in the earth for 250 million years!
4 comments:
That is so cool!
These are so cool! I had no idea stone roses existed.
I have never seen such a thing - very, very cool!
Aren't they pretty? It's fun to look for them. They are very well camouflaged in the red dirt--we rinsed off several "roses" only to find that they were just gobs of mud.
My aunt has quite a collection of them now. She even has some doubles and triples that formed together, like a bouquet.
We meant to bring ours home but we forgot them! Darn!
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