by rusty rocks
The colour rust seems to have become a theme with my recent photos of sand, water and these rocks, all on Mckenzie Beach on the Pacific Rim of Vancouver Island. It’s a favourite colour and of course, I love rocks. The bottom two images of rock faces remind me of rich tapestries from the Middle Ages. Such inspiration from nature!
March 13, 2015 in Canada and BC, Photoworks, Rocks, Travel by Marja-Leena
Marja-Leena, I wonder if you remember our bed rock type, granite? The bed rock is very old (ice ages took out and grinder away most of other stuff) and so the granite forms are red and black. Sometime there’s iron bound together with it. But the actual ore runs in rocks like you show, in streaks.
You probably have more of the volcanic basalt, I assume. And both Cascades and Rockies are relatively new formations. It is interesting, one starts looking at the history books when reading about it. Thanks!
Ripsa, I remember the rocks in Finland very well but forgot what “granite” is in Finnish. Oh, “graniitti”, of course. Yes, I remember we’ve talked about our mountains before. Our Coastal Mountains are young and there are many types of rock here, including lots of granite as well as volcanic. I need to have a chat with our geologist friend and watch more of our dvd series called The Geologic Journey. We had it with us in Tofino but did not finish them all, especially the one on the Pacific Coast. It is a fascinating and complex subject!
Oh I know what you mean about medieval tapestries! And I would far rather have a photograph of beautiful geological ‘collages’ like this than so many abstract paintings.
As a textile artist, I knew you’d agree on the tapestry. Nature’s art is hard to beat!
I can’t look at photo 3 without seeing the head of a docile dog, she says with a rusty voice, today.
How clever, I see the dog now that you mention it! Sorry about the rusty voice though, a cold?
We have various forms of lava rock and soils and sands. Some of the rock is new,literally from yesterday,and more all the time from the ongoing eruption.
Of course! All that terrible eruption happening on your Hawaiian island is creating new rocks and soils – all part of the ‘geologic journey’ that is continues on this earth. These are the sudden and powerful manifestations, while other movements are very very slow, like the shifting of continents from south to north, east to west….
It’s humbling to see hundreds of millions of years squished together at the edge of the sea.
It sure is, Susan! One feels like a little bug in comparison to all the rock, sand and seas.