All Lite Up, Hearts, Faces, Seeing, Rocks and Fossils
Morning folks!
We are all Lite up
over here.
Temps in Tn have been going down,
thinking Old Man Winter won and its
his time to come out and play.
Sunday our low will be 15 and Monday
14. Then of course we have to filter in
the feels like. Now, that cold, no snow, I
am just going to make myself
at home in my ......
home and not go out!
However, even though it was a tad
chilly out on Wed. I decided to do a
walk about! Wow, I know, its been a while
since I did one of those. Course, no blooming
flowers to look at this go around.
With no flowers, not having to
watch my steps (snakes and frogs), I
did what I would have done even if there were
flowers, snakes and frogs...
walked around looking at rocks.
HAHA
I still have a few little bare spots.
With that said, I do not pick up
all rocks shaped like hearts anymore.
I just go for the larger ones these days.
But let me share with you two that
I saw and thought were cute.
Look how tiny.
Then there was this little bitty
white one
If you recall, not only were the heart
shaped rocks getting my attention but
sometimes I felt like I was being
watched when I was out there.
Sort of like this one.
I actually see two faces..
Two beaty eyes, large open mouth
and a growth on the chin.
Or, if you look away and come back, I
see two eyes connected (what was the mouth in
the first look), the growth becomes a nose
and under that, the mouth.
Doubling being watched!
Talking about being watched, I am sitting
in front of the TV watching a movie, well, actually
listening to it. But when I was scrolling to find something
to listen to, I had to put on my glasses.
My tv is a big one, not overly large cause I did
not want one that would be the biggest center
point of the wall.
With that said, I probably should
have went a little bigger. I have
realized that when scrolling through
movies titles and such, I can't read
them.
My eyes are not really bad at all, near sighted,
with a astigmatism. I have been wearing
glasses since I was in high school. My issues
are that things to the distance are
fuzzy and nothing sharp at all.
I am not one to wear glasses much.
I can see the TV just fine, except when
scrolling apparently. I have to have them from
dusk till light if I am driving.
If not the brake lights merge from
two to one long one across the backs
of cars. Actually, driving is about the only
time I really wear them cause during the
day, the sun messes with my eyes so
I always have my script sunglasses on.
But with all that said, I put them
on the scroll and its amazing how
much clearer things are!!
lol
Now, to finish up with the subject of
glasses, I do not sit and use them while
watching TV because most times I have
the laptop in my lap, and I can't see the
screen with them on.
Yes, I need glasses for the tiny
letters when reading a book or
what knot, but I have tried
bifocal with no lines, three
times, I can not adjust to them,
With that said, and I am sure all that
was of a lot of interest to you, I shall move
on.
Lets move right on to
ROCKS again..
Back in the spring when I was
doing all the rock and fossil
hunting I found these.
These are Obsidian.
This is a glassy, shiney black rock.
Mainly used for making arrowheads since
it is really strong and hard.
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass
formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools
rapidly with minimal crystal growth. It is an igneous rock.
With all the pieces I have located I would
say that during the time TN. was under
water or within some point around then,
TN. had volcanos.
I have yet to study that.
Next, I have NO CLUE what type
of rock this is, but I held on to it
since it looks like a small loaf of
homemade bread.
I just think it is cool.
Next piece, no clue but I like it
cause it looks like a rock
was being covered with
sediment but the other end did
not get covered, over maybe it
broke away. But it looks like
a rock busting out of another rock.
This next piece was a surprise to me.
I just never realized that area
of TN you could locate jasper.
This is a very large piece
of red jasper. Larger than my
hand. I have several samller
pieces also.
Not only have I located red jasper
I have found several large pieces
of yellow jaspter too.
Moving on from rocks to fossils
and artifacts. When I was a kid,
and had my bucket on the weekends
picking up rocks in the yard of
our new home, my brothers
located a couple of arrowheads.
All I could think of when I
started finding fossils was I wanted
to locate an arrowhead.
During my hunting in the dirt
of my my front yard I located this.
I knew it was something, thought
it was an arrowhead but the ones
I always saw had tails on the end.
Finally got around to studying up
on this one, it is exactully
what I thought and what I
was hoping to find..
arrowhead.
Back in the spring I located these
after the heavy rains down by the creek.
Again, thinking they were something,
I picked them up.
Google tells me that these are
LIke the bits and pieces of
the Croinoids I found, these
are also warm sea water critters that
have fossilized.
The coolest thing is these pieces
are millions of years old.
I have actually held past from
millions of yrs ago.
Fossilized coral.
I have learned that there are
several different types of fossilized coral.
Its been fun learning all this.
Google is great!!!!
Found this in the backyard on my walkabout
the other day.
A piece that has a lot of fossils
attached to it is usually called
fossil soup. This, I am not really
sure if that would be the group
this falls in but it is an interesing
piece. Looks like through thumbing around
for years, years, 100 of years,
thousand of years, or millions of
yrs . some pieces looks like they
popped out. That is where it looks
like there was something but not
it is gone. But its the pink color
tube like piece sticking out that got my
attention. This spring I should have enough
cool pieces to chisel pieces like this down.
Next, I might have to invest in
a rock saw. Some pieces you destroy them
if you bust them up with a hammer,
a saw on an agate or geode opens up some
really amazing stuff inside.
On the same walkabout I
found these. Crinoid pieces.
I told you before, my whole yard is just
big open fossil field.
My older brother wanted some pieces so
what I am finding pretty much now I
am putting in a Mason jar to give to him.
Now everyone there will be a
test next week on these rocks
so I hope you soaked in what you needed
to get in this post.
ROCK on,
Pam
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