Well last Tuesday, December 28th, I had cabin fever and since I was off and the weather was halfway decent, I decided to drive down and see what could be found around the secret spot…I had emailed Docia and she said they only had a dusting there, so Missy and I drove down and found about two inches of snow on the ground…I checked a couple of the side roads first and found a few nice druse and poker chip combos…..

…and decided to drive down to one of the lower locations just to see if I could find anything walking around…as I started down there, I decided to take an interconnecting road that I hadn`t explored yet, which connected me to the old path and once on the old path, I was driving down through a stretch where some of the original rocks had been placed in a muddy area and for some reason I looked to the left and a bright sparkle caught my eye. I stopped and backed up and there in the snow was a medium sized druse with a nice poker chip or two attached….

…we hadnt been down this road in quite some time…I`m thinking it must have been sitting here the whole time covered in dust and dirt most likely….cleaned from rainfall since then…it sparkles alot more in person let me tell ya, than the photo shows…I wrapped it up and placed it in the cab with me…and we drove on down the road.

Well there was snow all over the rocks and I didn`t want to climb around in the snow on the rocks, just in case,  so I decided to check the outer areas for druse instead. I grabbed two bags and started checking the edges and within a few minutes, I figured out I hadn`t grabbed enough bags…I came up on several plates of bubbly drusy quartz and soda straws of glittering smokey colored quartz crystals…talk about EXCITED !!!

We find a lot of colors there, clear, pink, yellow, gray, tan, brown, blue, and smokey is by far my favorite color of druse to find…but we don`t see alot of it, so I was very excited when I saw several plates of it that had eroded out of the clay, and within a few minutes, I had filled two bags with the plates.

Here is one of them still coated in clay….

Hopefully by tomorrow, I`ll be able to get a few more photos taken of the plates that I brought back…here is another one of some that I found while there…

and only found one double down there this trip…but found a lot of drab gray druse pieces with some nice poker chips attached to brighten them up, one a few photos above had a nice yellow chip attached.

..and here is the rest of the story…druse plates and poker chip chunks and combos, that I have set out in the yard to let Mother Nature clean up for me….my water hose doesnt work too well this time of year. 🙂

..and there you have it…