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Friday, March 1, 2019

Rocks and Tea

 
The highlight of today's activities was a visit with one of Marie's friends who collects rocks, minerals and crystals. I'll lead right off with the spectacular ones, the ones that are fluorescent. Can't name anything except that some of them are wolframite, and some are fluorite.

fluorescent rocks

She has a lot of them arranged in nice cases, and grouped so they are really pretty.

rocks

The deep blue in this one is azurite.

rocks

The other fluorescent ones respond to different wave lengths, but I didn't catch the entire explanation. But they sure are pretty.

fluorescent rocks

fluorescent rocks

She's also an artist, and we got to see her studio and a bunch of her art work. She likes bright colors, so a lot of what she does really appeals to me.

We ended with a "real" tea, with homemade scones, homemade black currant jelly, and a sip of homemade black currant cordial. And of course, tea.

tea time with scones

Oh, and she has quite a few succulent plants, too. We definitely had plenty to talk about.

In other news, I wrote 1000 words this morning, and we did a 3-mile walk at the mall.

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2 comments:

Ann said...

Wow, those rocks are fascinating.

vanilla said...

Oh, my; the lady has rocks in her display cases!