What does a perfect day of rockhounding or lapidary activities look like for you?
I take people out rockhounding (for free). The purpose for this is so that I have someone to rockhound with but also to bring rockhounding people together, where they make new friends, and then they have someone to rockhound with too. I take their kids too (future rockhounds). It’s cool to watch them when they find a treasure and get all excited. But the best part of the day is when you hear the laughter ... it means people are having fun (instead of all the fighting there is in this world right now). Rock On!” – Colleen Bartell Edwards
Happy place is where I cut and polish and beauty comes out” – Robert E. McIntire Jr.
A scenic, relaxing drive to the site I alone discovered, then finding one after the other of some of the best lapidary material I’ve ever seen.” – Nancy Morton Frampton
My best day would be walking a river with a friend on a cool spring day. Taking time to sit a spell and look through piles of rock deposits. Then coming home and cutting our finds to expose the true beauty of the stones. The excitement of being the first person on earth to see the inside of that stone is more exciting than anything! It only compares to seeing your child for the first time.” – Sharon Rushin Martin
Dig all day till you get a bucket full, at Kimber Mine in Arizona.” – Richard Grzych
High in the Warner’s, looking southeast towards the Black Rock. No roads or trails up to where I took this photo, because that’s where the best rocks are.” – Lisa Glavish
An outing with Mining Supplies and Rock Shop in Hesperia, California.” – Dave Schoue
For me, it is any day I get to join our Presidential Rock and Mineral group on a dig, especially our yearly trip to Palermo. For my husband, it’s any rock show we attend!” – Kathy Lovell
A beautiful sunny day, breezy, but not hot. In the mountains, looking for that next great find among a huge pile of rocks.” – Wendy Michelle
Definitely something like this.” – Jeff Zwack
Great memories (like having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a rock ledge at 14,000 feet altitude), some equally great rocks and wondering if that fantastic find is just ahead.” – Charlotte Bourg
I don’t care if it’s a twomile hike to hound rocks or just to root around in a bucket of rocks in my shed... I’m smiling either way!!” – Michael VanDyke