Steph

Some of the closer ups ...

Hansel's clearies: (closer views available)

That's why I can't ever get a file going on exotics! Someone is always joking!

The blue and red one is the Cobra? A cyclone is a guinea with at least one side which gets all tangled up inside?

So when I make my file on exotics, I should include these? I've read gazillions of pages about exotics but never been sure what they were.

Pretty sure they were close. I've scoffed at the "hard as flint" part though. I LOVE the language, including the boasting.

kewl

Bump in case Chuck G is still in the neighborhood.

Gutta have it!

beautiful!

In case you don't have any of George's posters, well, they're great. Quite comprehensive. This arrived in the mail today along with other nifty historical items.

Thanks, Winnie. And Bob, of course!

nice snag, Ann.

It's a bit of a mindbender to try to match the shadow calligraphy up with the vine's curls. Loving it.

That could be it. Gonna have to do some more experimenting now with mibs where the halo of speckles was easier to see. Definite improvements here though. The reflection which looks like a small moon is from the table lamp. First here are a couple of shots with both the red eye and the Safety FE turned off. Then the third pic is with the Safety FE turned back on. Would the Safety FE do any speckling?

That green one is interesting too. Beautiful.

I already boxed it. Probably has bubbles inside. But in addition to the speckles my camera flash gives it -- I think it's the flash anyway -- in addition to those the base of the smaller one looks kinda smashed. I guess that's reflection from the marble stand.

Woot woot! Found my Carnelian. Found some missing Realers which I had stuck in with moss agates for purposes of comparison. Found some popeyes -- which was odd because once upon a time I sold my popeyes and didn't know I had any left. This indoor marble dig has been great.

yummy looking candy

Welcome, DeJay!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wow and weird and wowwwwwww another one for the gallery

Minty ... yeah, yeah, I gotta work on minimizing reflections.

Ha! Sushi! That works! The geometry of that one blew me away. So much work went into that.