What Is It Wednesday #131
Here’s last Wednesday’s picture:
And this is what it was cropped from:
horse chestnut – not edible for humans, unfortunately!
These were the first three to get it right:
- Julie: “Chestnut with its skin/shell still on.” (that’s two weeks in a row, and to think she used to complain she never got these!)
- Sally from Oz (Books and Musings): “Is it a chestnut inside it’s pod? From a horse chestnut tree?”
- Gary: “it is a CHESTNUT WITH SPIKY SHELL AND LITTLE CHESTNUT inside”
The one that cracked me up was from the not-me Janet: “…although there is a part of me that really wants to think it’s sharks swimming in tree bark.”
This week’s picture is courtesy of Lea. So…
What is it?
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September 30th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I’m thinking that is part of a crystal…
September 30th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Geode?
But you always do food…so I’m perplexed.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
One of those mineral rocks you get when your parents drag you to a museum hoping to broaden your horizons.
I have a purple pokey amethyst….still almost 30 years later!
PS, the chestnut (the twins) opened up so much since this pic….we had fun playing with them. I was paranoid about the not eating. Husband’s mom makes these chocolate covered peanut butterballs called buckeyes that we get at Christmas time. They look identical to these things! But we took so pics…I googled how to plant them…so soon we will see!
September 30th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I think it’s the center of a geode nodule.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Feeding of what others have said, I think it is a crystalized, geode mineral rock. But you know the center part….
September 30th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
p.s. i think if you put eyes on the horse chestnut, it might look like a little dude’s head with a spikey helmet on…something cool to take a photo of skelly with perhaps
September 30th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Part of a fish.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
That’s the very center of a slice of polished geode.. very pretty one, too!
September 30th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I’m not going to say what it is, but if you’re an Indigo Bunting, that photo is porn. Just sayin’.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
A geode!! They are so pretty
September 30th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Agate slice. Dyed.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
a cross-section of a geode
October 1st, 2008 at 4:08 am
Gosh this is hard – looks like the centre of what we in Australia call a Thunderegg – not sure of their geological name – although not a geode or agate.
Or it could be the centre of a flower – but I am sticking with thunderegg
October 1st, 2008 at 5:57 am
Agate. Slice-o-rock. Pretty.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:43 am
I read Lea’s blog, so I’ve already seen the whole picture and i must say that it’s gorgeous!
October 1st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
SLICED CRYSTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
center of a geode crystal. *sigh* still not in the first 3, I see.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I’m going with the flow here and say it’s the inside of a geode…BUT….it also looks like the inside of one of those BIG jawbreakers we use to get as kids and would have to break with a hammer to eat!
October 1st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
it’s the center of a geode! i knew before i saw everyone else’s comments. so there!
October 1st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
That is the centre of a very beautiful geode. I didn’t even have to hum and wonder about this one!
October 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I think it is a Geode. My kids were into rocks when they were little and we always had to visit rock shops when we were on vacations.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 am
I’m late but I think it’s a geode.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Did you know that chestnuts are excellent spider deterrent? Just use a nail to put a hole in the shell, and place around the house!