The last couple of days a record 10 degrees above zero. The snow is gone, time to get out there.
A sunny morning, a spiderling drops from the eavestrough, blue-bottle fly on the glass of the deck. Chris and I head out to a few spots.
Nothing new, places we've been before, some still too deep in snow. But, digging up by a mine where we'd found some good quartz and silver ore he finds some amber. Not amber, precisely, but glassy resin in the dirt. Looking around I spot the bark it's dripped from, tear it down, when:
It begins an awful hissing and takes me a moment to figure out what it is. I would have thought - given the abundance of mines, that hibernation would take place a little deeper in the mountain, but maybe (hopefully!!!) this guy was an early riser.
Anyways, tuck him back near a hollow on the tree - hopefully he can resume his hibernation, not enough bugs out yet. And a reminder to be a little more careful traipsing about the woods, wouldn't want to prematurely wake up anything else.
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The first, a 130,000 year old Neanderthal Skull found in a sinkhole in Italy.
The second...well, look at it and figure it out. You could write a Novel on that subject.
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The afternoon - cold, crisp, bright blue skies. But cold, the icicles still hang from the cliffs, somewhere, high up above a patch of light is hitting a snow-covered slow and the trickle of freezing water makes it's way down my favorite local fluorite seam:
The fluorite, it's the blue-ish material running in veins close to the center.
Closer - 2 Cubes (maybe 1/2 inch across)
In about half an hour I'm filthy, soaked and I've gathered about 40lbs of material. Now what to make from it?
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