| Sara's Page |
| Pictures of their Granddaughter Sara (Second Grade) and with Dad, Paul at Sea World |
| Christmas 2007 |
| A wedding trip to New Orleans Sara is a flower girl |
| Sara visits with Pie and Joey August 2008 |
| Sara visits with Pie and Joey Part II June 2009 |
Here is my granddaughter on her first day at Girl Scout Camp for
a week with 3 of her friends. They and their parents did not know
they would be sleeping in a tent. Bathroom is in another building
close by. Thank goodness there are mosquito nets over each
cot. Sara was okay with it, but I think Mom was a little concern.
Sara is in the pink outfit with scarf. PieFace said that Sara packs
like us....everything, but the kitchen sink.
a week with 3 of her friends. They and their parents did not know
they would be sleeping in a tent. Bathroom is in another building
close by. Thank goodness there are mosquito nets over each
cot. Sara was okay with it, but I think Mom was a little concern.
Sara is in the pink outfit with scarf. PieFace said that Sara packs
like us....everything, but the kitchen sink.
| Sara's art work was chosen for the cover of her schoold's yearbook ! Yeah SARA ! |
A collection of rocks for Sarah
| This is a piece of obsidian (volcanic glass). It is what arrow heads were made of and when the volcano explodes as in Iceland it produces the ash. The ash is in the small ziplock bag. Be careful obsidian is very sharp. |
| This one is rather strange. It appears to be two types of dolomite. One black and one white. The dolomite was crushed and then mixed over a very long period of time to form this conglomerate. |
| We found this piece along a lake that is mostly drying up. I suspect the sand is dolomite and it is welded together with some salt. Don't really know but I like the formation. |
| This is classic dolomite. It does not have the great big crystals seen on the web page but is what would be used to make counter tops and tile decorations. The dark banks were mud flows that came down into the sea bottom from time to time. |
| Very pure white dolomite. |
| I think this is the darker form of dolomite. That would mean there is more manganese in this rock. Still very old like all dolomite. |
| Now this is one of my favorites. The round shape you see on the right middle is more than likely a Crinoid.In Death Valley these come from a formation that is from the Cambrian age although this article says the Ordovician. If you look carefully you can see many other parts of fossils. |
| I really don't know much about this rock. Looks like it has some fairly well defined crystals but I don't know if they are calcium or silicon. |
| Dolomite |
| This one is interesting. It appears to be mud stone and on the rough surface it looks like some type of small animal fossils. |
| This is a borate crystal. From this you get Boron and other borate salts from which many of todays products are made. Glass being the most ubiquitous. |
| Again I don't know for sure... |
| Multiple lays of various crystals. Each laid down in an episode of flooding under a sea or lake. |
| One of my favorites. This is Jasper. It comes in all colors. This piece comes from a hill about half a mile long, 200 feet high and 200 yards wide. Solid Jasper. |
| Grandparents Day at Sara's School |