Back at home in front of our fireplace, left to right are an emu egg (dark green), a brown hen's egg, and an ostrich egg (white). The wood in the background is a cypress knee from a Louisana bayou. The hen's egg is atop a piece of redwood from Muir Woods, just north of San Francisco CA. Later a funny thing happened. We had the ostrich and emu eggs on top of new Bose speakers on our mantel, and they both shattered when we played our stereo!