Well neither had I. Apparently, it is the most famous, unfamous place I'd never heard of. Ridgway, is home of the world chainsaw carving competitions. And THAT is exactly what it sounds like, giant logs of wood being carved into pretty pieces of art using giant buzzy chainsaws. Ridgway, and the towns around there are also home to Elk. At first I thought they were just big deer with antlers, okay they are. But, they are a lot bigger, and so when you stand next to one (okay so a STUFFED one at the Carnegie Museum, real ones are hard to come by), they are quite impressive.
Talking about things stuffed, Walruses, are HUGE. The tv sci shows don't do them justice. Either that or the sneaky Carnegie Museum peeps found the biggest, baddest walrus shot it, stuffed it, and plopped it behind a pane of glass. Just so you know, for your knowledge, if anyone reads this, mountain goats too are huge-arific.
Carnegie also has a giant collection of minerals. You would not believe the type of things earth has the ability to spew out. I shall add pictures of my outing. Up next, a soliloquy on rocks. I LOVE them! I collect them! I admire and kiss them and tuck them in at night. Each one different than the next, all colors, shapes, and sounds......ahhhh.
I've collected rocks ever since I could use my brainwaves in such a thoughtful effort. My early efforts were oft thwarted by my mother who considered her rock collecting child a retard and threw away her preciouses. But the retard prevailed and today clutches her measly collection to her chest each night.
Have you ever seen a rock? I mean each one is different, just in your backyard alone you can find so many different ones, striped, glowy, granite, quartz. Here in NJ, I can find a good mix, and when I let the rain wash them for about a year, you can really see the colors pop. I've collected samples from.....Pennsylvania, which seemed to have granites (and others I need to ID). South Carolina had lots of Quartz. And these below, pics I took from the Carnegie Museum, are some freaking mindblowing minerals that good mother earth has spat up.
