Day: July 4, 2002

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Independence Day

We drove down a street lined with tall trees, expansive green lawns, and gardens full of roses and tiger lilies. Along the way, neighbors were hanging red, white, and blue bunting and putting small flags near sidewalks and under trees. The weather was cooler because of a storm earlier in the day so the windows […]

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Rocks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As some of you know, I collect rare minerals, in traditional crystalline habit, thumbnail sized, and with matrix. All of which is just a fancy way of saying that I collect crystals. I started the collection years and years ago with a watermelon tourmaline cross-section, soon joined by dioptase, azurite, […]