2022-09-16

National Collect Rocks Day 2022

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A while back my mom went to Las Vegas with her late husband to visit his sister and their family.

She toured around places including the Vegas strip and Hoover dam and it was an eventful interlude she seemed to enjoy very much.

She brought home a number of lapidary stones in a velvet bag which I transferred to a covered glass bowl and set upon my desk at work.

It stayed there for a great many years prior to being dashed upon the floor by a clumsy visitor.

They now reside in a paper sack in a drawer in my closet.

Today is National Collect Rocks Day.

It is observed each September 16 and is a moment to observe and perhaps collect specimens of natural beauty.

My personal favorites are the crystalline minerals like quartz, citrine, and selenite but I also like the patterns presented by the agates and petrified wood has been a lifelong favorite.

So I really haven't taken the lapidary world by storm with my collection but I still think that rocks are pieces of natural history which are interesting to collect and view.