Keith channeled his Grandpa Charlie today. In 1911, Charlie went to Alaska for the gold rush. He came back with gold nugget he formed into a ring. The other nugget paid his fare back to New Hampshire. We were more successful. We are returning to CT with a haul of of crystals and 25 pounds of quartz. The day started with our getting lost on the way to the mine. No GPS, no cell. No wifi. Not much of a road. And have you seen Ozark on Netfix? They're drug dealers in them thar hills. Finally we found Bee and Joe. They are leasing the mining rights so we can dig. And dig we did. Essentially it was a strip mine and we used garden implements and sand box toys to find our rocks. Keith hit pay-crystal. Two big ones and we both found lots of small ones. Here's our haul. Crystals Quartz with crystals growing. Still working on cleaning Plus about 25 pounds of quartz. The most common rock on the earth.
I wasn't prepared for the beauty and desolation of Teddy R's park. The Buttes are painted in orange, brick red and yellow. Across the horizon are strangely shaped projections that shift and change with the continuous erosion. Sage, scub and cacti are the botanical life. Bison are nearby. This grumpy guy came so close we evacuated to our car.
My favorite part of traveling is running into someone's passion project. Sometimes I just ask myself "why?" But I also have to admire the determination, time and skill an individual pours into a passion. Here are three examples from our last few days. Junkyard www.lakenland.com --is a sculpture garden by laid off ironworker, former marine Ted Lakenland near Marquette MI. Back around 2003 his found object iron sculptures were whimsical. Then around 2015 they become more angry and political. He also did a cool MT Rushmore treatment of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her team on honor of covid. The World of Accordions Museum www.worldofaccordions.org -- is where accordions get all kinds of respect. In old church in Superior, WI Helmi Harrington displays her collection of 2300 concertinas, accordions, harmonicas from 1820 to ¹today. She has spent her life performing, studying and cataloguing these instruments and at 75 years of age it'...
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