..and catching up on photo editing last few days…had to get my mom`s photos done from the family reunion so she could get them sent out, so that was priority one and everything else, including the quartz, was put on the backburner, but last night I started in on the six bags of quartz crystals and today I managed to get the bucket cleaned out too…found some really nice small clusters of crystals and one fairly large sized one too, in the balls of clay I brought home from Arkansas last week…here is what my sink looked like after cleaning last night….

this is one of the plates I found in the pile I was digging thru Sunday morning at the mine…

it cleaned up pretty nicely…when I dug it out I thought it had a smoky or two on it, but looked more like lemons when I cleaned it up….and here is the small cluster I washed off last night from a hunk of clay, and was a nice surprise for me…

and as you can see it cleaned up with water pretty nicely too…

and then the next morning I resumed my cleaning, and got to the bucket finally from last Sunday morning, last few mud/clayballs I pulled out of the dirt pile I was working in next to Mark and Carol…about halfway down and still encased in clay was this one…

..crystal clear and pretty as could be…found some more this morning too…some small ones, some bigger ones, some with damage, and some perfectly undamaged…

this next one was one I found while walking around on top of the pile Tuesday, most of my family had left due to the heat and I was taking one last quick look around, spotted one crystal of this one sticking up, the rest was upside down in the dirt and the dozer had just passed over….