April 2011

Yesterday started off gray & gloomy

By the time we had breakfast and got to Mount Ida, the

sun was shining and it turned out to be a beautiful day,

UNTIL we got to the top of the mountain.

Wind was gusting so hard that you could not hear

somebody talking if they were more tha 3 feet from you.

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This is one of the clusters that Tom found .

I am not able to navigate the steep hillsides so my

digging was very limited.

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This is a smaller cluster he unearthed.

And I mean it meant some heavy duty digging

while doing an impersonation of a

mountain goat.

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We have a small bucket of smaller crystals,

MUCH SMALLER - pretty to look at

but useless for jewelry making.

They do look very beautiful in a class dish on the table .

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I thought this was pretty.

An old family church or a small community church.

The way a church should be -not like the ones they build

now that look like they could double for casinos. **************************

Side view of same church **************

************************* OKAY-- I know the pictures are out of order.. All I had for breakfast was coffee and a pain killer This is the large cluster Tom managed to pry from the earth. It is beautiful !!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It was 87 degrees yesterday Today I woke up to lightening , thunder and rain ..