Despite the on and off again rain, I put my gardening clothes on to get out and do something – and I promptly got hailed on.
Giving my strawberries frostbite
I am not kidding to say that the photo below was seconds after the one above!
Sun back on
And a minute or two later –
I swear some kids got into the celestial weather room today and have been flipping the light switch & turning off and on taps!!!
So I watered my hothouse (or rather the things in it, as the hothouse was getting a good watering by Mother Nature without my help) and went back inside to have a proper look at what stones we found yesterday.
I sprawled over the floor with my macro lens in average light and tried to get some decent shots to share with you.
This one was my favourite pick up from yesterday. Looking forward to polishing thisDetails
Its amazing the difference between wet and dry – and despite the slight discomfort of fossicking in the rain, it sure makes the colours and patterns stand out.
If this had been dry I would have passed it by on the beachWhen wet, the strip of agate shows through clearly… curious to polish this one back although its too big for my tumbler
Great designs in this oneThe underside of the above rock!Its not only agate I pick up – I loved this colour with the stripe of (I think) quartz through it!
The underside is almost flat – I’d like to just polish this side flatThis piece was translucent – put it against a torch so we could really see the patterns through the rock!
I also took a few snaps of the recently finished tumbled stones to share
A happy traveller through life!
Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens.
We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.
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2 thoughts on “Rain, Hail and Shine! (& Rocks)(Lots of Rocks)”
The rocks are lovely.
Our children had a rock tumbler when they were 8 -11.
It made such a racket we put it in our barn some 500 yes from the house!
On a quiet night we could still hear the tumbling rocks.
Your lovely rocks would make outstanding jewelry, paperweights and bookends!
Happy days to you!
Hi Mary!! Thats funny re your noisy tumbler!! We have ours in the shed, but when it was in the house I didn’t find the noise of it too bad actually!
These days I don’t hear much except the rain bucketing down!! 😀 😀
Yes – at some point I will have to find something to do with them all…right now they are in bowls to be admired, but I am sure they could be put to some other aesthetic use!!
Have a lovely day!!
The rocks are lovely.
Our children had a rock tumbler when they were 8 -11.
It made such a racket we put it in our barn some 500 yes from the house!
On a quiet night we could still hear the tumbling rocks.
Your lovely rocks would make outstanding jewelry, paperweights and bookends!
Happy days to you!
Hi Mary!! Thats funny re your noisy tumbler!! We have ours in the shed, but when it was in the house I didn’t find the noise of it too bad actually!
These days I don’t hear much except the rain bucketing down!! 😀 😀
Yes – at some point I will have to find something to do with them all…right now they are in bowls to be admired, but I am sure they could be put to some other aesthetic use!!
Have a lovely day!!