Came across this beautiful and enigmatic picture in the July edition of the National Geographic magazine in the school library today. My first thought was, "Wow, that is such a beautiful underground cave or something", 'cause it looked like some primitive, million-year-old cave. I was admiring the beautiful waterfall and design of the rocks.

Imagine my surprise when I read the caption:

"Pietersite
Photograph by Bill Atkinson

You can almost hear the roar as a waterfall tumbles over craggy boulders, one of countless imagined landscapes discovered in a polished slice of pietersite."

Isn't it amazing? This is merely an intense, close-up view of a small slab of rock. It's amazing. Read more about Bill Atkinson's Discovery in Stone here.