On December 4 1993 Husband and I became Husband and Wife. With a bit of effort all around we remained so for 20 years after that, so we celebrated by getting away for a couple of days down south in Dunsborough, Western Australia. The site was chosen for its proximity to the ocean (for Husband) and to decent granite geology for me. In a perfect ( Read more... )

::This started in a rambly fashion but quickly became a post about the current state of the pretty rock pictures. I've left in the rambly bits Because I Can ( Read more... )

Today's pretty rock was brought in from the cold (well, the nice sunshine actually) where it normally resides as one of the outside rocks on the edifice formerly known as the barbeque.

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This slab of Orbicular Ocean Jasper from Madagascar is a lovely subtle rock, so it may take a bit of time to get my eye in to appreciate the subtle colours and patterns. A couple of shots struck me as instantly interesting so they went straight up to redbubble.

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Stringy Moss Agate from Lake Bonneville Idaho is odd-looking stuff. Definitely a candidate for weird microscopic life, or perhaps something you'd find around a geothermal vent deep in the ocean.

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Strictly speaking it's now after midnight so it's a whole new day to post about pretty rocks. This one is Pink/Lavender Dumortierite from Nevada.

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Pretty rocks, can't stop at one. Introducing another fossil-turned-agate: Agatized Petrified Palm Wood (Nevada).

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I bring you Rainforest Jasper from Australia. Where in Australia? I hear you ask. It's a pretty big place. Well, I don't know officially, but I have a sneaking suspicion this comes from Queensland.

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Sometimes the rock pictures do a pretty good job of looking like other things.

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You'd think with a name like Galaxy Porcelain Jasper (Nevada) this slice of rock would be a certainty for deep space images. The naked eye can see pale blobs on a darker, slightly messy background, and to me it looks a bit like a monochromatic deep field Hubble image full of clusters of galaxies. But nothing is certain until the microscope is ( Read more... )