Not all of the round rocks at Roundrock are round rocks, I've said before (and likely will say again). Some have taken on different shapes. You see that this one has a rib around it, something like the rings of Saturn. I'm not going to speculate how this might have happened other than to say that the round rocks were formed as a consequence of a meteor strike hundreds of millions of years ago, and perhaps that meteor passed by the planet Saturn on its appointment with what we now call Earth. Perhaps it liked the look of the ringed planet and passed that memory into the mineral melange in which my rocks formed. If you can't buy that explanation, I'd be happy to hear your own. That dry, rocky bed you see in the back ground is part of the lake bed. In fact, it is where I took photos of schools of tadpoles that I posted a couple of months ago. I hope they found deeper water before this area went dry. Missouri calendar:

• Black-eyed Susans bloom.

Today in Missouri history:

• The Confederacy claimed its first military victory in Missouri at the Battle of Carthage on this date in 1861. Historians blame the incompetence of the Union commander has been blamed for the fiasco.

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