Nice instruments fellas. Makes me realize I need to get mine out and start picking again.
I can't pick a guitar, but I can pick a French beauty from the 1950's.Nice instruments fellas. Makes me realize I need to get mine out and start picking again.
BB, I think it's looking real good & real close! Your brim looks better; mine has a couple of wonkies from bumping into stuff that I need to iron out.
BB, I think it's looking real good & real close! Your brim looks better; mine has a couple of wonkies from bumping into stuff that I need to iron out.
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A ~500# limestone & concrete gatepost with a pink sandstone (Feldspar?) cap. (Maybe Rockwater can help identify the cap). Shown with my Ritch Rand Natural Beaver Tom Mix. Pic from 2016.A 1,000-pound boulder of apple-green jade near Crooks Mountain. Photo taken in 1944 by Bert Rhoads.
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Nice looking country.....and of course hat.A ~500# limestone & concrete gatepost with a pink sandstone (Feldspar?) cap. (Maybe Rockwater can help identify the cap). Shown with my Ritch Rand Natural Beaver Tom Mix. Pic from 2016.
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I like that photo. Our cats will finally leave my hats alone.
Choices.
~ S.
Greetings HJ et al:A ~500# limestone & concrete gatepost with a pink sandstone (Feldspar?) cap. (Maybe Rockwater can help identify the cap). Shown with my Ritch Rand Natural Beaver Tom Mix. Pic from 2016.
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Bowen, I looked up Pink Quartzite & would say you are dead on. It's not easy to find or plentiful here but does surface in remote areas from time to time. I always dig it out when I can. There is a small family cemetery here on the National Historic Registry. It is located on property that was once a large plantation. The original plantation home stood abandoned until the 1970's when it was struck by lightening. There are graves around the outer edge of the cemetery marked only by this Pink Quartzite. It is believed (maybe documented) these are the graves of slaves. Two or three generations of the family rest in the center. So at one time the Pink Quartzite must have been more plentiful here.Greetings HJ et al:
Hard to tell but looks like a pink Quartzite. A very dense (@metamorphic) sandstone. I could be wrong. Feldspars are in granites and the pink colored mineral one would be Orthoclase. I’d have to hit it with a rock hammer and hear the sound to really know. Ha Cool hat.
Be well. Bowen
PS: pretty sure that rock used to be a pretty nice beach somwhere long ago. B
HJ:Bowen, I looked up Pink Quartzite & would say you are dead on. It's not easy to find or plentiful here but does surface in remote areas from time to time. I always dig it out when I can. There is a small family cemetery here on the National Historic Registry. It is located on property that was once a large plantation. The original plantation home stood abandoned until the 1970's when it was struck by lightening. There are graves around the outer edge of the cemetery marked only by this Pink Quartzite. It is believed (maybe documented) these are the graves of slaves. Two or three generations of the family rest in the center. So at one time the Pink Quartzite must have been more plentiful here.
Thanks for your expertise!
A ~500# limestone & concrete gatepost with a pink sandstone (Feldspar?) cap. (Maybe Rockwater can help identify the cap). Shown with my Ritch Rand Natural Beaver Tom Mix. Pic from 2016.
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