Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
Musings on cats, travel, gardens and life
Tag: Crystals
Windshield Art – Frosty Squares
This morning when I started my car, I saw lovely ice crystals on the windshield of varying shapes and sizes. These are extraordinary, I thought to myself, all the while realizing how very ordinary, they were. Works of art, I thought, so I explored… Continue Reading “Windshield Art – Frosty Squares”
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Quartz, Minerals, Rocks, and Other Gems
Who can keep them all straight? I’ll start with the largest hunk of quartz I’ve ever seen, an 8,000-pound slab from Arkansas, newly obtained by the Smithsonian. “Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth’s crust. As a mineral name, quartz… Continue Reading “Quartz, Minerals, Rocks, and Other Gems”
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