{"id":655,"date":"2011-09-07T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwjrocks.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2016-03-20T05:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T05:49:03","slug":"sunbeams-and-poker-chips-june-end-of-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Sunbeams and Poker Chips June End of May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I had to make a trip to the secret spot to see if I could locate some nice drusy quartz before I left for Kentucky a couple of weeks ago, so I drove over one evening and walked up to the clay bank where Docia always finds some nice stuff eroding from the red clay dirt. I wasn`t disappointed when I saw some nice stuff laying around up there…<\/strong><\/p>\n

I carried a bag and my trusty rake\/hoe digging tool with me and began to see some sparkly drusey quartz plates sticking out of the clay dirt so I began scratching around and out popped a few druse plates with soda straws on them…<\/strong><\/p>\n

…within about ten minutes I had one bag completely stuffed with soda straw druse quartz plates and got up to stretch my legs and go grab another bag or two.\u00a0 I grabbed my camera on the way back as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I got back up to the spot, the sun disappeared behind some clouds and I looked up to see this nice fluffy cloud backlit…couldn`t resist so I snapped it…I like sunbeams as well as sunsets…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Backlit<\/a><\/p>\n

Pretty soon I was working on filling the second bag when my rake end snapped off my trusty tool, so I walked one filled bag back to the truck and grabbed my handrake instead…and saw this pretty butterfly on the way back…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/a><\/p>\n

Well I filled four bags within about 90 minutes full of druse plates, and then decided with what daylight I had left, to drive over to one of the erosion control roads and see if I could find any nice poker chip pieces…I sure was glad I made the choice to do that…I was driving along and watching the pile on the side of the road and low and behold, I spotted this one on top….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Spotted<\/a><\/p>\n

calling my name and asking to go home with me…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Calling<\/a><\/p>\n

and so it did get to go home with me…on the way home, with the sun shining into our eyes, I looked over at Missy…she was kind of glowing….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Missy<\/a><\/p>\n

…apparently she went swimming in a clay mud hole while there…lol….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Clouds<\/a><\/p>\n

…and here is a nice sunbeam we saw on the way home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the way home, they were talking on Y98 Radio about a huge thunderstorm parked over the city of St Louis and just dumping alot of rainfall on the entire area…when I hit I-44, I spotted it from the Bourbon area, about 75 miles to the west of St Louis…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bourbon<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and another one nearby…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"This<\/a><\/p>\n

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