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Nelson Garage Sales

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Found; Published: 01 May 2015; Hits: 2045

Saturday is Review day at the Chamber of Mines, nothing new, Q&A and look at the rocks, and I take the opportunity to skip out and do another form of prospecting. Garage Sales.

Finds include a broken trumpet, trombone stand, pinwheel crystal vase, a box of role playing games for $10 that I flip in Calgary for $130, and the two treasures pictured below:

A vintage ceramic ashtray, with rocking bobble legs, animated by Google Auto-Awesome, and the Acupuncture kit pictured below:

They're longer than they look. With these I've almost completed my holistic and occidental medicine course, Dentistry or Acupuncture? Now to hang my shingle and find some patients...

More Field Pictures

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Images; Published: 01 May 2015; Hits: 2033

A variety of pictures taken in the field. mostly improved by Google Auto-Awesome, which I have to say remedies my photographic skills considerably...

Creek:

Charming place, but hell to pan on and most of the yield seemed to be garnets (big and bigger, though, there's hope...)

And upon the field trip, breaking open a rock to discover a Western Skink hiding in a crevasse, probably a bit stunned as it took a moment to pose for my picture....