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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 5:12:57 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 5:05:31 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 5:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 4:57:10 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 3:50:36 GMT -5
neat! I love amazonite... it is just hard to imagine, even though it is real, it seems un-natural somehow. Just too pretty!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 3:45:49 GMT -5
the colors! quite a contrast between the 2 pieces. both pretty neat in completely different ways.
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 3:43:43 GMT -5
wow! we get grey, beige and black here. that's cool!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 3:41:11 GMT -5
we had them in IL too, daughter would complain they were keeping her awake. Noisy little devils. (darn cute though)
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 3:29:45 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 3:22:08 GMT -5
Here's one of those marked rocks. I had hoped it might be a tektite.
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 3:03:21 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 16, 2015 17:08:26 GMT -5
Might be an artifact, but there are tons (literally) of examples of known naturally caused examples of these "strange marked" rocks that one should be skeptical. that's what I was thinking. Crystal replacement, septarians, etc etc... many naturally occurring things can look like these. Last year I posted a link to somebody's page who believed they had found "balancing art" that was made by native people, and had huge elaborate explanations for all of them. Just because one reads about these things in a book or sees it on the web doesn't make it so. Same for lots of other stuff. gees, I sound like a mom!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 16, 2015 16:59:44 GMT -5
so beautiful! thanks for taking the time to photo and share. second photo, left hand side has a definite hawk's head image in it... anybody else see it? they all just seem exotic to me. so many colors and forms. wonderful!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 16, 2015 7:09:53 GMT -5
misguided instinct to hunt moving prey (no idea how big it is, but it moves and smells tasty!)? That was a hoot! I think you definitely have a winner, there. Tree frogs near my daughter's house by the river can get noisy, but you have a chorus of other things going on there too. Do you get cicadas/locust singing in there during late summer as well? Amazing sound. I loved it!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 16, 2015 5:11:12 GMT -5
very nice! self collected are always the best! Here we would call your pink and green rocks unakite, and the all green ones will be epidotite or epidosite depending on their makeup. epidote works fine for a name for them.
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Post by snowmom on Jun 16, 2015 4:04:51 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 15, 2015 7:32:08 GMT -5
agreed, they are amazing, but the bottom one is da bomb!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 15, 2015 7:29:31 GMT -5
The blue jays here drive the cardinals away... aggressive devils. They can spot a peanut left for them from afar, hawk eyed little pointy-heads! I left peanuts for the back yard chipmunk here when we first came to this area, then I saw who was really picking them up, almost as fast as I could put them out there. I think they are prehistoric looking, with those crests, and their calls. Birds being descendants of dinosaurs, I guess that is likely.
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Post by snowmom on Jun 15, 2015 5:53:05 GMT -5
Perfect? You are so humble, James. lol!!! Jean, James is " shy and elusive". The only blue birds we get are the loud and sassy blue jays. "Hollywood Jamesp" I know somebody will come up with an avatar for him!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 15, 2015 5:51:11 GMT -5
had those in IL, little flying jewels, always a treat to see that flash of blue. They surely are quick. Great job capturing the images. beautiful things.
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