This last weekend, my wife and I went back up to The Quarry for a quiet weekend by ourselves – one of the very last before baby comes. I wanted to get a good last chunk of rocks mined and Sarah wanted to get a good chunk of beach time in. Both were accomplished.
I’ll get photos up in another post coming soon from the weekend, but first I wanted to dedicate a post to just rocks. Wow. That sounds lame as hell. Ha! But either way, as an update to the post I put up last week dedicated to the beach, here is what I accomplished this weekend:
Focus on the left hand side up to the fire ring. This is July 16
And this is July 2:
Here is a “highlight” of the differences from now and two weeks ago. July 16:
And as it was July 2:
Overall I’ve found a ton of pretty interesting looking rocks. They’re all so different from one another and the variation pretty much amazes me. I can’t imagine what those glaciers were carrying that brought them here – and from what corner of the earth they came from. Here are three pretty great looking pieces of what I can assume is granite. Each one is about 100 pounds or so. That’s just a rough guess though:
And to get an idea of proportion, here they are in the wall:
I got quite a bit done this weekend. I’m pretty happy with the results considering it was just me this go round.
Pypeline.