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Picked up this baby sandstone spud



It’s a unique Salt River leaverites
In that it rare for this shade of sand

This one did tumble a long time
Pretty round and smooth
How big was the chunk that started?

What geographical era is it from?
Most likely from the Colorado Plateau area

The quartzy pure sand is sifted to about 400 grit
How does nature work this wonder ?

As Newton said about mechanism of gravity force
‘I proffer no hypothesizes….’


Anyway not to exciting
The Salt River rocks
Are mostly big dull felsic weight

fernwood You ever tumble one of those monstrosities? I find some that show some of the same characteristics.

Snow is pretty much gone here finally so Ali and I did a little hounding on the way home from town Friday afternoon. I tell ya, I think her agate eye rivals beefjello 's 🤣



Just realized how blurry that pic is but that's all I got 😅

Man that’s kinda scary looking. Sorta like a alien embryo.

There is a antique shop that I've been itching to stop by for some time now and today I noticed a "ROCKS AND FOSSILS" sign out front. This is one of sprawling, unorangized, backyard kind of places full of lawn ornaments, gas station signs, and T-rex heads that line the streetside. He took me into one of the side garages after inquiring about his sign. Hard to poke your head around too far with the clutter blocking all lanes in and out, but I did come across a big ziploc baggie of this material.

I instantly thought of the Blue Lace Agate I've seen floated around here. Not all of it was this laced, I picked a few prime pieces. Most was in shades of blue, grey, white, etc.

So what do you guys think, did I stumble across something rare or is it just standard agate? It's beautiful either way.

Also I thought this piece of Amethyst was pretty gnarly with all the green and gray banding set below.

Wasn't today but a couple of weeks ago Eva and I managed to slip off unnoticed and spent a nice day at the coast - started the day at Wrights Beach which is known for colorful northern CA jaspers. The pieces are mostly pretty small but once a while a larger chunk can be found. Who doesn't love a beach full of pebbles?




A lot of the smaller stuff I just gathered up for filler. Most of it will disappear in the tumbler.



After a yummy fresh halibut fish-n-chips lunch in Bodega Bay we headed down to Agate Beach in Bolinas for some fun time picking oil agates. A freezing cold wind was absolutely howling but we managed to spend about an hour at our favorite spot.




This is what the agates look like in their native environment. The beach was LOADED with them this time. There's probably 50 or more agates in this picture.

Holy Moly Tommy, what a sweet little collection of stones

Did some fence line walking yesterday. Found this one where there was a small lake a couple weeks ago. The lake has since dried up, so was the perfect time to find something.

I only did a quick cleaning. There are lots of nice crystals, clear and pink.  Some oolites.

Penny for size reference. It covers the palm of my hand.