luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Apr 26, 2016 9:39:59 GMT -5
Awesome! Made those my screen saver.
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Apr 6, 2016 13:10:42 GMT -5
Found these guys swimming in my pool this morning. They hardly react when we go outside. The male on right is very colorful, but took pic from @50yds away and doesn't show. They seem to show up every other year and stay a short while.  |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 26, 2016 19:04:04 GMT -5
Odd stuff! Pretty though! What locality is it from? Casa Loma, Morgan Hill |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 26, 2016 16:31:30 GMT -5
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 24, 2016 18:38:21 GMT -5
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 19, 2016 19:40:27 GMT -5
60 years back fishing for Sockeye Salmon from the beach at Finger Bay, found this small (pic rt) arrowhead, assume it was used to get Salmon as they entered the stream to spawn. A few years later at San Pablo Elementary school, (Jax Bch, Fl) found this larger arrowhead in the coquina shell/sand mix they had just placed under the playground eqiupment.  |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 16, 2016 19:39:43 GMT -5
Is the blue all the way through, or is it a surface crust? Time for a tile saw yet? Darryl. From the sides and opposite end. Hard to see micro poppies with my camera, but it's poppies all the way through rock. Transitions from blue to pink, red, orange, yellow, tan.     |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 16, 2016 14:18:35 GMT -5
Found this softball size multicolored micro poppy. Mostly blue and pink. They must be rare, first large one i've seen here in Morgan Hill. Have a large blue poppy from Panoche, only one.   a few more from this morning, back one is more solid than it appears, near fist size  |
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luvtogrow
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Pjasper
Mar 15, 2016 16:41:36 GMT -5
Post by luvtogrow on Mar 15, 2016 16:41:36 GMT -5
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 12, 2016 18:58:34 GMT -5
Figured might as well add the rest of that heavy haul-    Many times micro poppies line up |
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 11, 2016 19:30:00 GMT -5
An oddity from today  |
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 11, 2016 19:07:53 GMT -5
Large fist size beauty collected today.  |
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Pjasper
Mar 10, 2016 20:24:02 GMT -5
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Pjasper
Mar 9, 2016 15:41:26 GMT -5
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Post by luvtogrow on Mar 9, 2016 15:41:26 GMT -5
Now's the time to collect poppy jasper around here. Finding more than can carry. Here'a a kinda unique one from this morning.  |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Feb 24, 2016 9:38:18 GMT -5
Unusual pattern/color. Just a speck of color showing through dirt.  |
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Post by luvtogrow on Feb 21, 2016 19:57:31 GMT -5
Some of these were left behind in leverite piles. Thanks!    fist size   micropoppy  large fist size   easy one to leaverite  Large orange lever  has large and micro poppies |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Feb 12, 2016 9:12:14 GMT -5
I live in Morgan Hill and would love to hunt for some please let me know if you are up for taking a new person  I live up in the hills and have red jasper coming out of the ground but doesn't have the look of it. PJ will likely be in eastward facing ridges associated with "green rock". I'd luv to take you and everyone collecting, but have learned sobering lessons with doing that. I absolutely leave the area just as I find it, (many), others like to put their print on the wilderness. This used to be my morning wildlife, nature walk. Now, i'm dodging cig butts, empty plastic bottles and trash left behind, rearranged natural features, on and on sadly. I'd bet I lose access soon! Sadly I know that from someone in a position to know. |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Feb 2, 2016 18:44:17 GMT -5
I need to make a drive up. Nothing sitting in plain sight, need to look for small areas of color and dig it up. However, 2-3" soaking will have them plentiful and unearthed. Timing is important in a small area. Here's one of my favorites from the other day, almost nothing showing, but was stunned when it came up. Near fist size-  Last month had a friend from Texas and another local, serious collectors and lapidaries both, out to collect. Between the 2 they found one red/yellow poppy golf ball size. I could feel the disappointment. You just never know! If you don't look you don't find!! |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Feb 2, 2016 10:11:54 GMT -5
Amazing finds!  How big are these? Fist/double fist size. Finding some solid rocks, for this type material. The largest i've found in this area was 15lbs, down to dime size. I don't bend down for dime sized rocks, but many times what appears to be small, comes out large. |
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luvtogrow
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Post by luvtogrow on Jan 30, 2016 9:02:37 GMT -5
Collected yesterday-   |
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I live up in the hills and have red jasper coming out of the ground but doesn't have the look of it. 
