Saguaro Cactus Graces This Agate Slice

Sherry picks the agate slices, this one from California, then positions the agate and adds the pewter in a way that compliments each other.  No two slices are alike.  Even the reverse of the agate slice can be strikingly different.  Western themed items are popular.  This piece features the iconic Saguaro cactus, found in Arizona.  Hang it in a sunny window and enjoy!

We say good-bye and thank you to Oxnard today and head for the Central Coast for a few days of R & R.  This weekend we will attend the gem and mineral show in Nipomo hosted by the Orcutt club.

We hoe your week is blessed.

Oxnard and Miners

This miner, inside a calcite geode, is loading calcite crystals into an ore cart.

We cut the geode into three pieces.  Then, Sherry added a few pieces of pewter to each, making a mining diorama of sorts.

The Salsa Festival goes on until 7 P.M. tonight.  Fun and exhausting.  We always enjoy meeting people from the community and from afar.

Oxnard and Fairy Bugs

This butterfly would love to fly into your garden.  It can hang in the air or sit atop a metal rod.  Sherry has a collection of glass insects I like to call “fairy bugs.”

Today we are in Oxnard for their annual Salsa Festival.  Attendance numbers over 100,000 and we expect a good crowd.  No doubt, some of Sherry’s bugs will fly away to new homes.