Rock Pictures

This is WA-A-A-A-Y cool!

Angelo in Oregon just sent me some pictures of a slab of my dad’s dino bone taken with a 200X microscope …. THAT ATTACHES TO YOUR PHONE. I didn’t know anything like that existed. And it’s relatively cheap too. (The dino bone has a higher price tag than the phone attachment.)

I have  been trying for years to get some high quality pictures of the “sticks” (some are reeds, others are wood sticks) in the center of the Algae-on-a-Stick that my dad found. My neighbor down the road is a professional photographer and I even talked him into coming up and taking a picture. But he didn’t own a macro lens for his expensive camera so that didn’t work out too well either. (His specialty is the landscapes of Zion Canyon.)

I’m gonna get one!

In the meantime, this is what a dino bone slab looks…

I've been sending out a lot of $10 packages of Idaho Garnets. I don't know if people are attracted to the low price or the gem quality reputation of Idaho Garnets ... but I'm counting it as a success. But (except for the pictures in the blog that Miley and I co-wrote -- See https://www.kinesavarocks.com/post/garnets-a-star-in-the-east ) nobody has sent back pictures!

Ah gotta tell you folks! Sometimes I include free rocks in my packages. If you don't send back pictures, the rock turns into a lump of coal. Magic !!!

Except for Ken!

I just received some great pictures of Idaho Garnets that Ken polished. Most are clear, transparent gems but Ken wrote,"I can see one maybe star if light hits it just right." Miley got just one with a star too. From everything I see on the web, it's difficult. You have to position the dome of the cab…

Peta scored a 14 inch rock saw for her lapidary shop! Now, Peta is such a cut up! One of the first rocks she sliced was a really weird rock that I sent to her in the hope that I could get some idea about what it was like inside. It's a strange one. If you have any ideas about what this rock is, leave a message for me.

Peta also cut up a Montana agate that I sent to her. It's hard to really tell what is inside a Montana, but a LOT of them turn up like this.

Ken polished some of my dad's "Yellowcat Bark"!

(Avery from Oregon also polished some. See it at:

Wow! Wotta Shine!)

Compare this with Avery's cabs and you can see that, since all of these rocks are "casts" (the agate just filled the interior of a hole in the ground shaped like wood) , there is quite a bit of difference between Ken's cabs and Avery's cabs.

But it's alllllll good! See my essay, Yellow Cat Wood? Or Yellow Cat Bark?