ScarlettoSara: I don't know if I'll do a book about my own stories, but I just did finish two long books regarding my family history - one an illustrated transcribed book of a collection of family postcards from 1906 through 1959 - the other being an edited and illustrated version of two travel journals my grandmother wrote in 1968 and 1977. (Hence my disappearing from the Agate Index for the past month - no time for both.) My next family book will be an illustrated version of a diary we have of my grandfather's family traveling from NJ to California in 1920.
Plus:
I am in the middle of redoing my California Agate Index.
AND I am converting to digital a collection of slides taken by one of our rockhound members between the 1940's and the 1960's - including a bunch done as our field trip chairman. I want to tie this into the following:
AND I am putting together an illustrated history of my rock and mineral club from 1944 to the present - which includes me looking through over 3,000 pages of documents my club has accumulated - including the minutes from our first meeting.
Thank heavens I am OCD and can get lost in the details....my wife wishes it would convert to cleaning the house more often.....
ThirdRock: Thank you very much for your complements. I appreciate the kind words very much.
As for closeups of some of the stones - here you go - more than you wanted, but what the hey....
several I just recently finished and you've probably already seen them:
I APOLOGIZE FOR ANYONE WHO GETS TIRED OF LONG STRINGS OF PHOTOS:
Bruneau:
Chihuahua Mex:
Agate after Barite:
Baker Eggs:
Condors - Argentina:
Lead Pipe Springs, Cal.
Botswana:
Parcelas:
Arrowhead Lane Nodule:
Agate Creek, Australia:
Black Hills, South Dak.
Seam Agate from Hauser Beds, Cal.
(Don't remember if this made the final cut: Laguna, Mex.
Thanks for asking.....I guess I take these photos for a reason,
Lowell
