I call it my "shoe rock", it striking how much it looks like a green sneaker! Originally I thought it might be unakite, but now I'm leaning epidote/sepentinite. I'm not really too worried about ID though, I mostly just want to show my cool rock! It's mostly green, but has thin ribbons of ruby-red and a thin sheet of sparkling white on one side. Normally the green stones I find are pebble-sized, the second biggest one I've seen was palm-sized and was more red than green. Finding this one was a shock! I think it's about 8" x 4" x 5"? I'll have to measure it. I think I found it in 2018

I saw just the tip sticking out in the mud of the non-paved part of the parking lot of Nub's Nob, it was so green it legitimately looked like green plastic! Curiosity and wanting to not leave junk in the parking lot got the better of me, so I started digging. It was Mardi Gras, so the ground was soupy but still partially frozen, so it was no easy task. I had to use another rock to dig! It just kept going, and going, and going! Finally when it popped out, it was an eight-inch long hunk of green stone! It left such a hole I had to find rocks and gravel to fill the hole back in! Since my dad was on the Ski Patrol and had a good rap with the owners, he knew they wouldn't mind if I kept it (plus large rocks like this cause damage to parking lots and cars over time), so I've had it ever since! 

I don't plan on cutting it or polishing it, it's cool enough as-is! Definitely my favorite rock find I've ever found! More than Lake Superior agates or Lake Huron pudding stones! My second favorite find is a chunk of light-blue banded chert I call my "sky stone", my third is a huge chunk of agatized horn coral (4" x 4" x 3" I think?) and my forth is a chunk of fossilized sponge/bacteria that looks like a tree knot! I might post those as well, I love them so much 🥰

Check out this cool rock I found in a ski resort parking lot! I thought it was plastic, I was shocked to see it was stone! Northern MI