Flora-rado Rocks

I carried these colorful, angular rocks home from Colorado to Florida, and they now rest atop of smooth river rocks from elsewhere next to our house. Sometimes nature also finds ways of moving rocks out of their original context, such as when glaciers carry rocks many miles from their origin. In those cases, the displaced rocks are called “glacial erratics.” The rocks in the picture were moved from their place of origin by me, so why not call them “human erratics?” However, when people are associated with the word, erratic, it seldom has anything to do with geology.

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