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Junesse,
You got to go collecting and even found some great keepers, having your husband along for the trip wasn't bad either. thanks for including us in your memories.
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Thanks for taking us along on an interesting trip. It means even a lot more after meeting y'all last spring. Music and rocks...can't have a kid do any better than that, and the chance for international travel is a lifetime memory builder.
Your pictures show some nice finds. Here's to (hopefully) future get-togethers.
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A nice respite from being mummy and the day to day grind! Enjoy  |
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Thanks for sharing the trip! |
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| Mike Streeter |
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Hi Junesse - A very nice report, indeed. It was fun for me to take a quick vicarious trip to New Mexico first thing this morning and to see all those goodies you found. Some look like they'll make some excellent cabs!
I'll put your report together for McRocks when I can carve out a chunk of time.
Excellent job!
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great report, I enjoyed it very much and let it transport my mind back to New Mexico - to sunshine - something we are not seeing much of around here lately. Thanks for sharing!  Docia |
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Hi Junesse,
Nice report, I very much enjoyed reading it this morning, thank you! I had a thought regarding your quartz crystal, is it opal coated? You might try hitting it with a short-wave UV lamp as much opal here in the US will fluoresce green. I have opal covering some of my zeolites from Rat's Nest. The opal is essentially invisible until one hits it with the lamp. Any way, just a thought...
Congrats on a wonderful get-away! All the very best,
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Hi Junesse,
Thanks for the great read this morning. I love the pictures too. I miss coming to AZ, maybe some day I'll get back down to Cassa Grandy to see my relation there.
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It's great to get away from the normal day-to-day life...
if we could only use the standard clock and not the one that runs "fast forward"!
Nice cozy cabin and a beautiful area for walking and collecting.
Thanks for the report!
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| Junesse |
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Thanks everyone, it means alot that you enjoy hearing about my excursions.
Joe - with every trip out, my hubby starts appreciating rocks more and more. But just being able to spend the time together is priceless.
Herb - I don't know how I got so lucky w/the boys. I found out today that this summer's tour will stop in Tokyo and Hiroshima while in Japan. The Hawaii part will be on Oahu and while in Korea they'll be in Seoul. Three weeks from now the chorus gets to sing with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and then they get to give a World Premiere Performance of "Prayers from the Ark", composed by Frederic Balazs. And this year the CD that he recorded from last year's Christmas performance should be released. But my oldest just had an amazing experience - yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was in town to speak to the UofA Law School and he also went to my son's high school and spoke w/his government class. Then he got his picture taken with the judge.
Mike - Can hardly wait to try cabbing some of these beauties, if I can find the time...sigh. That Kentucky agate you have at the top of the page is stunning. I found some agate w/traces of purple, but they weren't big. Supposedly there are some massive agates further into the forest, hopefully next time I can go searching for them.
John - could very well be opal coated, that would explain alot. It just has a sheen about it that's almost prismatic, kind of reminds me of those "opal glass" beads, but not as opaque. Short UV lamp - another item for the wish-list.
Jay, Wayne - I just wish I could get away more often, probably like everyone else. Lately I feel like my fast forward button is stuck on x2.
Mike K, Docia and Carl - glad you could come along for the ride! Right now I'm looking forward to some clouds and cool weather, it might even get chilly enough for a frost tomorrow night which would be unseasonably cold for us here. I actually get tired of sunshine sometimes. It was hard to decide which pictures to add without overloading it. Especially for the river walk portion. Y'know Carl, that green quartz site is near Casa Grande....
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Hey Teach,
Thanks for a great report and pics.
Nice finds too!
A long awaited,well deserved trip away from home!!
Tom K. |
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Hi Junesse
VERY Nice to see a report from you! Talk about being absent! I'm trying in one night to touch a bunch of bases since so very many kind McRockers wrote on my thread and I care about you too!
Your little crystals are so cute and remind me of the ones we found around Silver City Idaho. I love the heck out of agate hunting but finding a true crystal always gave me a special thrill! Speaking of agates we had those weird combinations in eastern Oregon often,the "stuff" that seemed in-between.Sometimes it looked like opalite but far too hard...or was part agate part opalite in a nodule, sometimes part agate part gypsum even, and I wondered just what part formed first and how the other mineral got there too! Anyway, you got a bunch of neat agates there! What fun! Thanks for sharing!
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Hey Junesse, loved your report and FYI a micro is any sized specimen that needs magnification to see the individual xls. Wowie, tiny secpters! |
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Hi Junesse and gang,
I have finally gotten around to putting the report together for the McRocks field trip reports pages:
Click Here for report
Mike |
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