LATEST SAMPLES & THE 2024 CHALLENGE!

I only photographed 67 samples in 2023 that was a major drop from last year. Sandfest was a huge sample contributor for the last year. My thanks to all of the great people who contributed samples this year. My goal this year is to keep on doing this. The old site is still very much there. Please visit it, but also help me add to the new. If you have sand to contribute, please consider sharing it with me. If you want it returned - no problem! Clear Skies!

THE STORY SO FAR - Week of October 28, 2024 - No changes so far this week except for the comet (see below)! Watch this space!

THE GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE OF 2017

THE GREAT ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF 2023

It was our pleasure to see this event from Victor, Idaho. Click the image below to follow our entire experience!

Once again it was our pleasure to see this rare event from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Click the image below to follow our entire experience. Other locations have been added. More to come!

THE GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE OF 2024

It was our pleasure to see this event from Mazatlan, Mexico. Click the image below to follow our entire experience!

My attempt at capturing c/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan/ATLAS. The comet was almost impossible to see from my location, my backyard, because of light pollution. This was my sharpest image.

ROCK OF THE WEEK

Need a poster child for sedimentary rock features? This is the one!

It's another creepy face!

I assume the rocks above left and above formed the same way. The lava cooled forming Basalt, then, sometime later, a crack opened and quartz came into it. There the story changes. In the sample avove, I assume chunks of the basalt fell into the quartz solution. I could be wrong.

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