Yesterday we’ve been walking on the shores of a small lake not far from our house and brought back home a couple of stones. They were just regular stones but after braking them they revealed a nice texture which I though I’d share with you. Even if I know almost nothing about their composition or constituent minerals, I like very much how they look in front of the lens. All photos are 10 mm wide.

A granodiorite-like stone, with white-grey combinations and some small golden patches.

Quite dark conglomerate with a nice mix of white and dark grey.

This stone had an unconsolidated feeling, just braking apart when firmly pressed with the fingers. Perhaps some iron oxides gave the reddish color, some mica spots can been easily noticed.

I guess this is a quartz based stone due to its high transparency degree but I don’t know whether that’s really true or not.

This looks very much like loose sand, however the photograph is of a solid piece of sandstone (image is 10 mm wide, same as for all images above).

The last two photos are from the same stone, just different sections: on the left is the outer stone surface while on the right I took a photo of a cross-section. Quite different, isn’t it…?