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.
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.
Nice pics! How is your collecting going?
ReplyDeleteI haven't done anything more, have not really traveled. Had a couple of rocks from a trip overseas but luggage limits were killing me!
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