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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solitaryVSong" data-source="post: 1886491" data-attributes="member: 77930">Mike has it right. Rocks like that don't tend to go anywhere or erode very quickly. There is also another type of rock not pictured in the painting: one showing tremendous metamorphic turmoil, if that's not redundant. But I use all those adjectives strung together because when you first see large rocks, much larger than yourself, that have lines in them that looked like twisted taffy you can help but think: Boy this was some force I've never seen that could just turn huge rocks into taffy like that. I'm not sure if I'm phrasing this correctly. So I'll try again. The rocks look they were once liquid but then were frozen in place. From my understanding of geology that's indicative of metamorphic rock that has been formed by tremendous forces of heat and pressure.I have to think that my fairly recent interest in geology came about from seeing all the rocks around here. Maybe one day I'll get up the nerve to portray it just as Tim has done with some of his local geology.</blockquote>