Double Fallen Tree Thunderegg

This is it. If I had to pick a favorite then it would be this one. This is possibly the most 'organic' looking thunderegg I have ever seen. In its figure of 8 shape - in it's moss - in the material of the two circular formations . . . This is a perfect double thunderegg. One half is crystal, the other moss agate, with two contrasting moss growths. Both are small and subtle, contained within that remarkable green and brown inner matrix.

A cross-section of a bone, perhaps? Of somewhere deep in the body? In which case, I cant help thinking that the growths in there remind me of sickness. I have compared thundereggs to all sorts of strange things on my site – Friend Ranch polluted ponds with planarian worms - here. Fred’s Bed eggs looking like bizarre 'cysts' in flesh or diseased organs – such as my lovely and painful Broken Heart specimen - here. Fallen Tree eggs like bones teaming with feeding growths . . . Those aren’t derogatory comparisons by any means but just another part of the wonder of these things and the worlds they contain - and it is a strange phenomenon that suddenly these images that might be negative are actually breathtakingly beautiful when they are a thunderegg.  So these eggs prove that our notions of what is beautiful and what isn't can be rather subjective, it seems - that beauty that can be found in the most unexpected places if we look in the right way. And maybe these thundereggs prove in some obscure way that even a murky polluted pond or a growth of something in a bone can be a marvel.

The world is a wonderful place! This lovely egg remains my most treasured and I suspect it will be a while before it is supplanted by anything!

from the "FALLEN TREE" mine in the Ochoco Mountains of Central Oregon