Sunday's necklace horn coral

polished horn coral, wood, sterling and copper

Very strange rock

Dancing Bryozoan

new necklace

I am satisfied with this.  The stone is confederate glass with a bit of the iron that didn't get smelted out showing.  I wrapped it with sterling and put a metal chain with it.  The stone on the right is a septarian nodule I picked up on the beach in Michigan.  Love the pattern which looks like a woman with her arms upraised.  

Unknown Agate, Mary Ellen Jasper, Confederate Glass

today's cabochons

Coral cabochons for jewelry

I enlarged these so you can see all the swirling energy of ancient seas.  They would make a nice set of ear rings.  $15.00

Monday's cabbing

Confederate glass, wonderstone, fossil coral from Michigan, tree agate.
These cabs are for sale, just ask.

geode?

Strange geode like rock from a site in Tennessee.  Many crinoid stems found in this area.  Could it be an artifact of a crinoid "blossom"?

Wonder Stone Cabachon

$15.00, if you would like to purchase.

trilobits

Hard to see, but it looks like a bit of upside down trilobite in he middle.

Mostly Crinoid stems

Cambrian crinoids, brachiopods and the bow shaped thing is part of a trilobite.  They molted, which is probably why so many trilobits are found.  Northern Kentucky

Crinoid stem and partial calyx

grass-like coal fossil

Fern Fossil

also a seedpod, flower? on right
From Tennessee.   Probably Alethopteris decurrens Lower Pennsylvanian

Graptolite backside

possible graptolite and trace fossils

Graptolites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graptolithinia

from West Virginia

Sowerbyella

I think it is Sowerbella.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

Michigan bracelet

Bracelet made from an old bracelet I took apart and stones I picked up on the beaches in Michigan and a piece of blue Confederate glass.  I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Petoskey

Petoskey with imperfect centers

fossilized coral, Hexagonaria percarinata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petoskey_stone

Wonder Stone

Wonder stone I cabbed yesterday.  It is pink and white, not brown and white

Lace collars

Cryptolithus fragments known as "lace collars"

Petrified Wood

Petrified wood given me by a friend.

Quartz

This is a piece of massive quartz from Graves Mountain.  Strange that it should show this unearthly blue/green in the scan as the color by room light is a pure white.

Other Side

I have been wondering just what the black bits are and today received an answer from a geologist friend

"The black pieces are mostly trilobite fragments.  They preserve differently due to the fact they are composed of chitinous calcium phosphate. This is a very common  preservation for trilobites in the Upper Ordovician in Kentucky."

Fossil Hash

Faux Bone

Picked this up on a beach on the sunrise side of Michigan.  It was one of the first beaches we visited and I thought it might be some sort of coral because of the covering.  Then, I was sure it was a dinosaur bone, it even has a crack running down the back and if you look closely on the left side, you can see what look like gnaw marks.  But I hit the end with a rock grinder, and, alas, it did not "bleed" red like dino bone and I saw no evidence of structure.  So probably a rock that was covered with some sort of marine life at one time.  But the shape....

Other Side

crinoid bits

pretty piece of Kentucky shell hash, lots of crinoid bits

Kentucky Shell Hash

I think this is going out to be a yard rock.  It is pretty fragile, so I thought I'd photograph it first.  What I like is the delicate shells which seem to still have a bit of shine to them after, what, 250 million years or so.

small trilobite

A very small trilobite from Kentucky.  I almost missed him.  He or maybe she, I don't know about trilobites, is about 1/8 of an inch long.

Michigan

You never know what you will find where or what adventure lies around.  It's what makes life interesting.  I found this today at a Humane Society Thrift store in North Carolina.  Just me and the dog, but we enjoyed our day.

streaks of color

Sunset from a South Haven neighborhood street.  Everyone came out drinks in hand to salute the day's ending.  It was a beautiful day.

Small crinoid fossil taken with my old cell phone in December of last year

Last of Summer, First of September

last of Summer, first of September ----- Cabbed, well, the upper left one is not finished, rocks picked up on the generous beaches of Michigan.  All the ones at the right contain fossils, the smallest one show a coral.  I'm not sure what the two middle dark ones show.  Bits of this an that, I'm sure.  Iron, I know which showed silvery, but "rusted" quickly.  If you look closely on the lower right edge of the cream colored one, you may see a trilobite.

I think the reddish one on the left is Mary Ellen Jasper, but that has yet to be confirmed.