Hearts Turned to Stone

About a month ago, I've mentioned being a sucker for found objects that resemble "cartoon" hearts, and are great for editorial photography. Thus, when I found a whole slew of heart-shaped rocks of different colors and sizes on the shores of a cold glacial river in the mountains, I couldn't stay away.

Here are two of them: a heart within a heart and a heart so petrified it turned white. 

"Natural" Hearts

My found-heart photo collection has grown: 

Previous exemplars include:

Of course, unlike the double-heart rock and the wooden-heart root à la Elvis, I couldn't keep the mushroom! 

These cartoon-heart shaped objects are the cute-and-girly counterpart of the kind of pattern recognition that allows one to see anthropomorphic mythic beings in a natural landscape (which I've mentioned here, for instance).