Refuge for the travelers, Jim Kassy Lynnie Metro Ican Rachel

I know, I wanted the seeds from that one too :(

I can probably send you pink, white and maybe purple seeds for them.

Shuuuuuush, don't tell Lynn these rocks are there.

:o
There are that many colors?

Yes ma'am....here is a link to see the different beauties and colors

http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/echinacea-plants-spring.html?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=plm&utm_campaign=Fall&utm_extra=dim1/Echinacea/+Coneflowers//dim2/exact//phone/1-888-466-8849&utm_term=echinacea

did anyone see dovey's meadow maid in the garden art forum? she's great!

Hey Kassy...the pic you show up there with several rocks and you said they are quartz you can tell....I bet you $5 they ain't all quartz....no way no how uh-uh

Good morning everybody.

Nice plants and rock photos.

Kassy, the rocks that you are referring to as Quartz, look like Flourite.

see Dave agrees, not quartz...I know me rocks! least most of pretty good

Aloha kakahaika, Dave. How are things in sunny Hawai'i? it would seem that quartz is a catch all term for crystaline minerals in general. Beautiful blue sky, Dave...grin

Julie, haven't been to that forum...need to check it out

Kassy, do you really think we can hide rocks from Lynnie? Don't think so....grin

Kassy's Quartz
Top green next to the red one is rough cut malachite
2 smaller ones below that rough cut jade
green one with darker top is flourite
the other green is also rough cut malachite
and the blue rough cut saphire
(red one's just a rock)

None are of gem quality

Hey Dave, that guy Erwin from Germany has a plant from Sumatra he is trying to ID....figured you might have an idea what it is.

All of the rocks in the "Quartz" photo look like Flourite, except for the pink one which might be Rose Quartz.

pain pills kicking in going back to sleep

one on left is red jasper one on right is rose quartz

also red jasper

Morning Dave,

Wow, I have jade and saphire, I'll take that!
Do jade and saphine fade in the sun?

Ok trina, what is this one then, and it is VERY heavy.

anyone been in the gem room of the Smithsonian? they had to literally drag my SIL and me out of there. Talk about rocks! Finished and unfinished, they're all beautiful.

yes they both fade in the sun where as a natural quartz would get brighter...looks like lava rock or hematite

This one you can't see well cause the sample is so small...but it's called moldavite, its actually part of a meteor

Big chunk of quartz

My favorite Amethyst

Snowflake obsidian...I bet Dave knows why they call it that

Sorry Kassy, no Jade or Sapphire, just Flourite.

The last rock looks like a metalic oxide, need more details for ID.

and Lapis Lazuli...a stone original used exclusively for wedding rings...and still an expensive little buggar

Nice crystals Trina!

The Snowflake Obsidian forms from the inclusion of "Spherulites of Feldspar fibers with interstitial crystalline Silica."

Well I only have about 5 or 6 of that last one Dave........LOL
My mom just happened to like to put rocks in her flower beds. And she collected them from all over. Some of those rocks could have come from the out west, and some could have come from canada, because she was there too, and new york.
Yes, she did do a bit if traveling! More then I will ever do.

Kassie, I have little nondescript rocks that the little boys next door gave me (before they moved to CA) and they are my special rocks.

Dave I have a couple of huge geodes cut in half that the kids use as doorstops, when I'm not quite so sore i'll venture up there and snap you some pics...but right now just going to the bathroom is a chore...

and of course have rocks...what Witch doesn't?

A White Heron walking up the Menominee River

beautiful! as always Kassy

Pretty flowers along the way ^_^
Thank you trina

Oh, I didn't know that Witches had a whole assortment of rocks!

Went camping in the Appalachian Mountains where there was always a swimming pool, no air conditioning in car then. But the head of the camp park said we could go swimming down in the river. He said to keep your shoes on because there was a lot of trash in it. He must have meant broken bottles because the river was very clear. And there were geodes all over the place. Not large ones like Trinas, more the size of a peach. Don’t know what happened to all of them.

Pretty heron! We have a blue heron that comes fishing in the apartment pond every once and a while. Saw him yesterday. I love to watch him wade in the water to catch something.

Kassy, pretty flowers also. You know, flowers definitely are prettier when they are beside grass rather than concrete and a fence.

yes venice, we use them to focus our energies for specific goals, and each rock means something different

The funny thing about getting the picture of the heron?
The street I live on is called blue heron......LOL

Here at my boyfriends, we have egrets as he calls them, or herons that land on top of the hill in the field across the road from his place. I wish I could get a good shot of them. They are the darker ones.

We have the small white herons here and also call them Egrets....when we aren't calling them tractor birds....

The ones here only show up in the field towards late summer.

Now this bird is easy to deal with, and he doesn't eat much!

We have the small white ones, the large white cranes and the blue/gray herons along with brown pelicans that come to graze the ponds. we call the little ones tractor birds cuz they show up everytime someone bush hogs and follow the tractor around snapping up grasshoppers and other bugs stirred up by mowing

The Cattle Egret, Bubulcus ibis, is indeed a White Heron.

Here is a Heronry near Hilo, full of Egrets.

Looks like the creek by the house, only it is brown...guess that is why they call it Muddy Creek....When we were in Australia, Jim and I were fascinated to see Ibis wandering around in the yards...then we discovered they are as prevalent as pigeons in NYCity....grin There are signs everywhere admonishing you to NOT feed the Ibis.....grin but my favorites were the Magpies.

you saw Heckle & Jeckle, Moon? ^_^