Suiseki: the Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation

I was on the banks of the Columbia river between Washington and Oregon. Initially, I thought that all the stones I was looking at were just gray pebbles. Then I started looking more closely and saw all the beautiful colors represented. I asked my husband, if he would let me put a few in his backpack well, by the end of our walk, he was almost being pulled over backward. His comment was “couldn’t you just collect stamps?”