Pudding Stones?

[cdmay]

A side hobby of mine is the Japanese art of Suiseki, or stone appreciation/collecting. A number of years ago an old friend from Michigan kept telling about 'pudding stones' from there. He eventually gave me one (that I still have) after a trip he made home.
Does anyone else know of these things? Except for the Internet, I've never heard anything about them.

 

[wellington]

Yes, I have heard of them, don't really know a lot about them. A lot of people that make jewelry from the Michigan Petoskey stones, also make jewelry from the pudding stones. I personally am not a big fan of them, the pudding stones that is. If you do a google search for Michigan pudding stone, you will find a lot on it.

 

[Jacqui]

New one on me.

 

[Yvonne G]

Ha. After looking at pictures on the 'net, I realize that I've seen this before, but always figured it was a hunk of cement with stones in it. Never knew it had a name.

 

[cdmay]

Ha. After looking at pictures on the 'net, I realize that I've seen this before, but always figured it was a hunk of cement with stones in it. Never knew it had a name.

Yeah, same here. If I didn't know better, I would have easily believed that my stone is some kind of cement with a mixture of broken bricks and pebbles in it.

 

[cdmay]

I guess I should put up some photos

 

[newCH]

Thats a new one to me also !

 

[wellington]

That's a nice one.

 

[Jacqui]

Very pretty rock!

 

[Yvonne G]

That's really quite pretty - that is, from a geological point of view.