Painted Rocks Borderline, Rock Star Treatment

The video is star-studded with previously encountered painted rocks. The rock star treatment includes starshape outlining of the 48 rocks and two limestone path enders.

My topic evolved from revisiting "Painted Rocks Borderline" (article | video), from 2018. At that time, I used Dreamweaver for web page, PaintShopPro for graphics, and MS Movie Maker for video. Since then, I've moved on to Bluefish for web page, GIMP for graphics, and OpenShot for video.

I concluded I no longer had the raw video input(s), so picked my finished 2018 video apart and used newer skills and different on it. I gave it star quality with wordplay and imagery renovations/innovations. The video's rocks piqued my wordplay about rocks.

Rock Theme Playlist for the Blog Topic

Rock and roll was a natural inspiration for my painted rocks topic. I've created a playlist with songs that include "rock". Eh, MOST of listed songs have "rock" in their titles. Exceptions are "No Man Is An Island" (opposite sentiment to "I Am a Rock"), "Rocket Man" ("rock" syllable), "Roxanne" (phonetically includes "rock").

"Life Is a Rock" by Reunion is my anthem choice. The first listed version in the playlist has no lyrics. The second one has lyrics; the chorus is Reunion's, but a DJ does the narration parts. BTW, I made it a point to gather YT vids that included lyrics. Enjoy the good rockin' music!

Mini-background on Painted Rocks Trend

About a decade ago, painted rocks were trendy, mostly individual ones left for others to find. In 2018, I published a blog article pertaining to a neighborhood painted-rocks path. I also uploaded a video featuring the path, 48 painted rocks, "bracketed" by a couple of larger limestone rocks. The blog article "Painted Rocks Borderline" ( includes sections titled "Rocks and Pebbles" (size differentiations) and "Painted Rocks Background" (kindness rocks).

Icy During January-end of 2026

Brrr! What a cold several days starting with Sunday, January 25! I recorded the whiteness (mostly ground level) in the morning after the previous night's sleet. Also recorded the next three days, skipped the fifth day, then recorded the sixth day.

The sixth day was thawedful in front, but still icypatched in back. This freeze was forecast/forewarned by weather people starting the previous week. There had been dire warnings that 245 million people, over half of US population, could be affected by the severe weather.

The stocking up of groceries by so many shoppers! It was like grocery shopping at a holiday eve--all cash registers operating, and several shoppers deep per register! We had gone the day before the actual eve, anticipating that going the night before the freeze would be REALLY unwise.

My first recording shows Sunday, January 25 at 7:32 AM. It was 17 degrees. I ventured out onto the front porch, then gingerly stepped onto the back patio a few feet. Crunch, crunch. I ventured as far as the far end of the patio bench.

The next three days of recording the back was through glass of the storm door. I skipped recording on the fifth day. On the sixth day, the front was totally thawed. The back was almost totally thawed, enough that I wasn't chicken to step onto the concrete.

We're expecting another couple of days of freezing weather, but no precipitation that could freeze and weigh down and break tree branches as in 2023. No power outage this time around, as had occurred in 2021 and 2023.

• "Feb 2021 Deep Freeze to Aftermath" article | video
• "2023 Ice 'N' Arborgeddon" article | video