Enjoy your chiminea or fire pit with the wonderful unique aroma of pinion firewood. Pinon wood (pronounced “Pin-ion”) is a dense, slow growing hardwood pine found in the mountains of the southwest United States. Burned alone or along with other woods, Pinion wood is a natural mosquito repellent. The smoky pine fragrance adds a great aroma to any occasion.
Each piece is like a giant crystal, often sparkling in the sunlight as if covered by glitter. The rainbow of colors is produced by impurities in the quartz, such as iron, carbon, and manganese. Over 200 million years ago, the logs washed into an ancient river system and were buried quick enough and deep enough…
Colorado’s State Tree, the distinctive Blue Spruce, is among the most popular ornamental trees in North America, and is known and loved throughout the world for its amazing blue-grey color and graceful symmetry. Blue Spruce make a great showcase ornamental, a fine windbreak, or an excellent container-grown living Christmas Tree.
Petrified wood (from the Latin root petro meaning ‘rock’ or ‘stone’; literally ‘wood turned into stone’) is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. Petrifaction is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having been replaced by stone via a mineralization process that often includes permineralization and replacement.[1] The organic materials making up cell walls have been replicated with minerals (mostly a silicate, such…
Petrified wood (from the Latin root petro meaning ‘rock’ or ‘stone’; literally ‘wood turned into stone’) is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. Petrifaction is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having been replaced by stone via a mineralization process that often includes permineralization and replacement.[1] The organic materials making up cell walls have been replicated with minerals (mostly a silicate, such…
