Jon Quebc

Love “the mystery of magnets”! Great line.

One of my big regrets is never saying hello to Mr Ginsberg when I attended a very sparsely attended poetry reading of his in Austin, Texas c. 1989. I was passing through, ‘on the road‘, a teenager from northern England. Thought I’d come across as my usual weird and intense.

A little trip to the shops finds this tree and its mushroom friends:

Thanks. You find such beautiful things.

A split open chunk of galena.

A large, split chunk of #galena for the #OreCup found reasonably local in the mining spoil which was closed after “some thousands (were spent) in search of lead ore and never found a pound weight”. I always find this funny as the hill is covered galena and wonder what they were doing.

Can I ask - not interested in the monetary value - but what happens to your finds once the FLO has had them. Are they returned to you or do they end up in museum collections? (Hopefully not a silly question.)

Allegedly a werewolf but looks like a repurposed Bungle.

Happy Halloween!

…and saw a lovely mushroom:

Found some strange rocks and a hammer and picked up a few bits - mainly quartz, azurite and malachite…

Last day out before Greenwich Mean Time hits:

If all you see is Pynchon’s prose then it’s oomphscrolling

A few more:

Managed to get a little walk in and the mushrooms are out:

Interior, August this year:

There’s about three shots in One Battle After Another that culminate in skateboarders fanning out across city streets that are some of the best images put on film.

Dock bug hanging out in the back garden:

Was trying to work out the ailments - inamorato - lovesick (far left), possibly zelotypia - jealousy (top left).

Bit of a typo - FRI 27 & FRI 28 Feb

Green-ish tinged crystals (full shot)

Close-up green crystal - or is it behind the crystal and therefore reading green

More green crystals

Teal looking mineral on embedded galena cubes

Onto the slightly mysterious. There’s a lot of quartz in the same area often in very good condition. First pics are of worn looking, green crystals - wondering anglesite but they seem harder than Moh’s 2.5-3. Last pic is a mineral on galena - chrysocolla? From a different area.

Space world of azurite and malachite

Azurite crystals with malachite

Some wonderful close-ups of this week’s finds #azurite and #malachite

YouTube video by Gijs Mertens spirit - 01 - america the beautiful/the times they are a changing

Ooo, could I suggest Spirit covering Times Are A Changin’?
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Sunset around 7:15pm.

Malachite and azurite

Suspicious, green “quartz”, possible trace fossils, breccia with fine quartz.

Out in time for a little rock collecting tonight then back home via the sunset:

Autumn’s not so bad today…

I might be being thick but the webpage for diabase has the same photo and states perhaps to where you’ve pointed to olivine phenocrysts as: “Brown spots are left by sea animals that were attached to the rock.” Purely as I’m looking at my stuff and going is it olivine or sea animal.

Baryte varieties from the same locale. Solid salmon pink, coxcomb and fleur-de-lis. From my own, small yet storage-troubling collection.

#teambaryte #barite today. I’ve got to vote for the local lad as I step over enough of it now without even picking it up. Found in a lot of spoil due to its hanging around with galena. Three variants inc the unusual fleur-de-lis type on the right: #mincup25 #baryte

Agree. I’m actively being pushed to use AI in work. A new dystopIan twist is the email telling me to use AI has signs that it may well have been written by AI. The Christmas play at the local primary school was written by ChatGPT with the kids learning lines of garbled nonsense.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

Sheep on the hillside

Nice to be out tonight with a break in the weather.

I’ve checked the geology of Ireland and can’t fathom a reason as to why they importing “Italian stone” to make their fancy Goodfellas pizzas.

Close up of azurite and malachite from last weekend: