Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Petrified Wood

Grandpa collected many things: art, bells, shells, coins and canes and books. Among the collections of his I liked the most was his minerals and fossils, especially his many specimens of petrified wood, trees that had turned to stone. What stories they told, organic matter replaced by inorganic, the rings of each new year frozen forever in something so durable.

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