When I walk around out here, I’m always finding rocks that I like for some reason or other. Sometimes, it’s a good pigment source. Sometimes, there’s a fossil imprint I like. If it’s small enough, it comes home with me and I add it to my little rock piles on the counter.
Now, a person can’t keep adding rocks to the pile indefinitely. It would take up the whole space, and it would get pretty heavy. But, I do admit, I’m guilty of doing that sometimes. Usually Rob makes a comment that gives me the idea that it’s time to put them out.
When it feels like ‘enough is enough’, I’ll gather them all up and take them out to my garden. I put the ones I’m pretty sure I’ll use on my rock-smashing rock.
The rest go into the walls of my garden retainer beds. If I need one, I can usually find it sooner or later.
Current Rock Pile
Here’s my assorted rock pile on the counter as of today. There’s an old bone fragment there, too. It’s getting close to the ‘need to take it outside’ point.
Contact Mad Rox: (479) 409-3429 or madison@madisonwoods and let me know which hat I need to put on 🙂 Madison for art, Roxann for real estate, lol. Or call me Mad Rox and have them both covered!
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Author/Artist Info
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Roxann Riedel is a salesperson for Montgomery Whiteley Realty, artist, owner of the only ginseng nursery in Arkansas, and the author of books and this website. Madison Woods is the pen-name she uses for her creative works. She’s a self-taught artist who moved to the Ozarks from south Louisiana in 2005. Her paintings of the Ozark-inspired scenes feature lightfast pigments from Madison county, Arkansas. Her inspiration is nature – the beauty, and the inherent cycle of life and death, destruction and regeneration. Wild Ozark is also the only licensed ginseng nursery in Arkansas. Here’s the link for more information on the nursery
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