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RE: black and white for monomad
Your commrnts are always impressive! I use two different devices so that I can type on one and view the comment on the other otherwise I forget all the points that I wanted to answer from the previous comment! It becomes a rather complicated system sometimes!
A Petoskey stone is a coral fossil that is only found on the shores of Lake Michigan in the Petoskey, MI area. I have a couple that I found on the beach and polished with a grinding wheel. My first attempt ever to do anything like that! 
howdy again melinda010100...oh wow..those are really super, super cool looking and they have to be ancient right? they're stunning and you can just walk along the beach and pick them up?
how big are those?
They are fist size. It is best to go hunting early in the spring or after a big storm. Ir is a well known collecting site. 350 million years old. Unfathomable.
They are for sale in the gift shops but even though my specimens are not the most beautiful soecimens, they are ones I found myself! You have given me another post topic. I need to start a list!
hey melinda010100! oh that is so cool, 350 million years old! wow. yeah I suppose that you can buy them on ebay or Amazon too but it would be so much fun to find and collect them yourself! lol. and the only place to find them is Lake Ontario? in the whole world?
Lake Michigan. On the Michigan side. It is their state stone. I think they can be found in other areas around the Midwest, but walking the beaches in downtown Petoskey Michigan is the best known, collecting site.
wow melinda010100.. "walking the beaches in downtown Petoskey Michigan " that is very cool, were there other people walking the beach looking too or were you alone?
It was early in the season, i was wearing a coat, but there were still several others there. The wind was ferocious so I was probably only out there a half hour or less and found a handful. Not the greatest, but I was happy with them!
oh I know that sounds crazy but I'd do it, well in the summer it wouldn't be miserable but you guys were there when it was cold. How big do they get or is that about the size that they are, like fist size?
By summer all the good ones that washed up durung the winter storms and were under the ice and snow are gone. Some of them are 300 lb boulders! The rock shops in town have some really big ones.