A son’s love of geology has become a family passion that has turned their front yard into a sea of rocks.

Jason Davis’ home near Comanche and Juan Tabo in northeast Albuquerque is easy to spot due to the thousands of rocks that cover his front yard.

“You build a wall here, knock that down, and I don’t know,” he said in a KRQE report this week. “It’s just kind of a hobby. It’s something I have enjoyed doing.”

The rocks are all different shapes and sizes and come from across New Mexico, the report said. Davis noted that each rock has sentimental value.

“If I go on a vacation or go camping or hunting with the family, I’ll grab like two or three little ones just to kind of remember; it’s like yeah, I remember when I did that, you know what I mean, it’s kind of like a little journal type thing too,” he said.

Davis refers to his collection as “grown-up Legos,” and people sometimes stop by and take pictures with them.

“Like the biggest thing is how do you get them to stay, are they glued?” he said. “And no, I mean, they’re not. You can just kick it, knock it down, stack it back up. That’s half the fun.”

Davis told KRQE that stacking the rocks gives his life balance.

“If I was upset or anxious about something earlier, I’ll come out and do this for what seems like 10 minutes, and then an hour or two will go buy, and it’s like, oh, I feel a lot better,” he said.

Davis commented that after 18 months of collections, he won’t be adding any more rocks but will continue to display his creation on his front yard.

“I told my kids I wasn’t going to hunt for more, so I don’t know if it can get bigger,” he said. “But it can definitely get more intricate.”