The walls were built with local pebbles, sand, chalk and earth. Also my lovely green stones are used here and there. And, this very nice yellow with black spots one!
Someone must have held it 200 years ago, and thought "what a beautiful stone!, I must use it in this wall". And yet 200 years later the plaster is removed, and someone else wonders again "what a beautiful stone!".
I have not seen any yellow stones here of this yellow, until this week when walking the dogs in the sierra above, the sister stone of the stone in my wall!
For a stone sitting in a wall 200 years is not a long time, I guess. It must have been sitting in the ground for a few million years, until a few monkeys put it in a plastered wall. And who know how long that will last. 200 years more? 500? These stones will outlast us, and the house, a long long time.
I wonder if the stones enjoy to be together again, after 200 years..
Curiously, the yellow is just a thin layer.
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