Well I had to make a trip to the secret spot to see if I could locate some nice drusy quartz before I left for Kentucky a couple of weeks ago, so I drove over one evening and walked up to the clay bank where Docia always finds some nice stuff eroding from the red clay dirt. I wasn`t disappointed when I saw some nice stuff laying around up there…
I carried a bag and my trusty rake/hoe digging tool with me and began to see some sparkly drusey quartz plates sticking out of the clay dirt so I began scratching around and out popped a few druse plates with soda straws on them…
…within about ten minutes I had one bag completely stuffed with soda straw druse quartz plates and got up to stretch my legs and go grab another bag or two. I grabbed my camera on the way back as well.
As I got back up to the spot, the sun disappeared behind some clouds and I looked up to see this nice fluffy cloud backlit…couldn`t resist so I snapped it…I like sunbeams as well as sunsets…
Pretty soon I was working on filling the second bag when my rake end snapped off my trusty tool, so I walked one filled bag back to the truck and grabbed my handrake instead…and saw this pretty butterfly on the way back…
Well I filled four bags within about 90 minutes full of druse plates, and then decided with what daylight I had left, to drive over to one of the erosion control roads and see if I could find any nice poker chip pieces…I sure was glad I made the choice to do that…I was driving along and watching the pile on the side of the road and low and behold, I spotted this one on top….
calling my name and asking to go home with me…
and so it did get to go home with me…on the way home, with the sun shining into our eyes, I looked over at Missy…she was kind of glowing….
…apparently she went swimming in a clay mud hole while there…lol….
…and here is a nice sunbeam we saw on the way home.
On the way home, they were talking on Y98 Radio about a huge thunderstorm parked over the city of St Louis and just dumping alot of rainfall on the entire area…when I hit I-44, I spotted it from the Bourbon area, about 75 miles to the west of St Louis…
and another one nearby…
