Gallery of Poems, Prose and Paintings

This Italian Ligurian Polombino stone was collected by Angelo Pondini many years ago. Pondini made the elegant base carved to fit the contours of the stone.

A large, four-lobed stone in a river in the Rocky Mountains in the Western United States.

This Seta River stone was named "Cape of the Depressed Boulder” by its previous owner  

A Korean landscape stone prized for it's features including  a conspicuous hole and a less obvious water drip tip pointing downward on it's left side. 

Moore Stones are ancient, water-washed stones from deep waters of the Red River near Dahua in Guangxi province China.

A Japanese chrysanthemum flower stone from Shikoku Island.

A Japanese Seta River stone suggesting an elegant island or a mountain range rising on the distance horizon.

This Chinese stone and its shadow provide another way that viewing stones can stimulate our minds and cause us to imagine something other than the stone itself.

Namhangang River Korean stone.

Palombino intact. Layered sedimentary stone,

Wen stone from the Boshan Mountain in Zibo City, Shandong province, Northeastern China.

Senshu Pot stones (Tsubo-ishi) are round or nearly round concretions with a hole suggesting a thick-walled pot. 

This stone was found on a rocky beach on the Southeast Coast of Puerto Rico,

A Japanese tunnel stone 

This large, 50 cm wide Palombino stone was collected in 2008 near Lake Giacopianse in Liguria, Italy.

This ink stone has three flower-like mineral formations on the upper surface and a single flower-like crystal on the lower surface. 

Neo Valley, Japan

A dolomite/marble formation deposited around quartzite.

A mountain-shaped piece of malachite from the Congo in Africa. 

A boast-shaped stone from the Tama River in Japan

"Twister" 

A Chinese Ying Stone

"Creation Stone" 

Japan

Small, natural chrysanthemum flower stone from Neo Valley, Japan.

Wakayama.  

"Untitled," China