100,000 Beautiful Rocks

Apparently author David Blatner has calculated that there are seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains of sand on earth, which supposedly pales in comparison to the number of stars in the observable universe, which he puts in the neighborhood of 70 thousand million, million, million. BUT, the kicker is that this number isn’t all that big, since you can find that many molecules in just ten drops of water. Why do we find this surprising? Because we “can't handle the biggitude."

I only mention all this because it is difficult to convey that there are A LOT of rocks around here, of which this selection is just one, very small and random sample. I’d say there are probably as many as there are leaves on all the trees in Maine, AT LEAST.