Saturday, July 4, 2009

Trip to the Garnet Mines

AA&J arrived on Thursday, to very rainy weather. It finally let up a bit today so we went to Barton Mines to search for garnets. The site is a pit full of waterwith small garnets all over the ground to be picked up.There are large patches embedded in the surrounding rocks, but they are too fragile to dig out. A frog chorused us most of the time we were there, and we found large tadpoles in the water.Then driving home, what must have been a coyote crossed the road in front of us. Very cool.

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