Wednesday, November 14, 2007

What is this?


Was ist das?

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is amber. It leaks out of trees and sometimes captures insects in it and maybe a thousand years from now the insect will look perfectly preserved in the amber. It is coming out many different places on my old cherry tree that is dying.

It will eventually become a fossil or fossilized.

Olivier said...

de la resine non ?

The resin, is not it?

Pedi said...

Harz/resin?!

Heike said...

Harz

Dunja said...

Maple Syrup

T said...

amber.....but isn't it called amber after it has been petrafied? i had some when I was a kid it was really cool.

judi/Gmj said...

Correct answer T. Tree sap, be it maple or pine is resin and that turns in to amber after fossilizing.

Wanda said...

Dat ist da "blob"!! :)

Lori said...

It looks like tree sap to me. I don't know the scientific word for it. It makes for an interesting photo! I guess it comes out during the winter time.

duopastorale said...

Eggs of some sort? Honey?

Kerri Farley said...

Looks like tree sap to me. Very interesting shot!

Sorry for not commenting in a while... I've been away for a few days and don't seem to be able to catch up very quickly :)

Mary Timme said...

I have no idea, but it looks like a sap of some sort. Had to stop in and see what was happening to you this week.

Anonymous said...

Baumharz?

Angela Marie said...

oldmanlincoln is right!
My sister loves this.. has many pieces of jewelery in this. A couple of them even have an insect in it. Isn't that amazing? They really are beautiful.

:)

btw~ Don't you just love Wanda? She cracks me up!
:D

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

????????

Isadora said...

tree sap isn't it? we used to eat those when we were kids :)

Gemma said...

Definitiv Baumharz.

Willard said...

Das ist pine pitch or resin!

I'm sorry I don't know the German words for pitch or resin.