The owl and the egg

I don't think these can be considered as suiseki, but I think they are funny: I found them in my garden, the first one can evoke a lot of different things, depending on the angle you view it (from dinosaur dung to... various things )

But from this angle, I can see an owl :



The second one I find quite intriguing: is it a fossil egg, a natural concretion, a sculpture from outer space?...





If I can find a flowering rabbit-shaped bonsai, maybe i could use it for an Easter presentation...

The second pic shows a fish chasing it's own tail. For me at least.

I think it's a fossilized PacMan!

Hi AlainK, yes indeed it likes an owl from you show us this angle.

The second pic looks like a fat, decapitated penguin.

Or is that just me?

I'll get my coat.

And the last one is a fat, bald man, squatting down with his shoulders hunched.

The second stone looks like the God of Longevity or the Disciple of the Buddha in Chinese,haha^^.

Heven wrote:The second stone looks like the God of Longevity or the Disciple of the Buddha in Chinese,haha^^.

I like it all the more then

Do you know the name in Chinese?

Hello Alaink,

The first picture is called the God of Longevity, Chinese name 寿星, spell it in Chinese shouxing



The second picture is called the Disciple of the Buddha, Chinese name 罗汉, spell in Chinese luohan, usually it is also known as Buddha, Chinese name 佛, Buddha is the collective name all Buddhas. Chinese prefer stone with the character of buddha.

Thank you very much for the information.

I will copy the Chinese characters, but I won't try to pronounce them: I once had a Chinese student to whom I asked how "penjing" is sounded, and it took me quite some time to come to something that vaguely resembled the true pronunciation. The "plosive" P is OK, but the raising or falling tones are so unfamiliar for someone like me whose mother tongue is French, with no tones or stress on syllables...

Thanks again, I really appreciate.

Yes it appeals a lot to imagination. By the way, what's more important, a good stone, or a stone that tells a story?