tsa-la-tsi-s-gi gv-do-di ka-ne
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tsa-la-tsi-s-gi gv-do-di ka-ne dance
- with - snake
DANCES
WITH SNAKES
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Field Trip - Eminence, Missouri Continued After another hour or so collecting, I was nearing the point of being ready to head for our second destination some 65 miles away near Bixby, MO. I decided I would take one more look at the area where I found the days prize and made my way that direction. I clambered up-slope of the spot to get a different viewpoint. While climbing around the boulders of limestone and calcite, I found a couple of pockets with 2 generation growth, dog-tooth and poker-chip calcite and collected what I could from the large boulders. About ready to head back to the truck, I started down from the top of the windrow toward the quarry floor. As I got within maybe fourty feet of where I had earlier parked, and less than fifteen feet from where I found my prize, I was astonished to see a SECOND amazing specimen, obviously from the same pocket, beckoning to me! I dropped my pack where I stood and sat down near the specimen, thinking, "no way, it couldn't be from the same pocket, could it?" There was some slight damage on some tips, and a couple of missing crystals, but there was no doubt this was the big brother of my earlier find.
It was sitting, much as the other had been, in a bed of loose sandy soil amongst the boulders and rocks. I sat it aside and began inspecting more of the pieces of sandstone matrix, and started finding crystals and matrix pieces from the pocket in the sandy soil pocket. Every piece I pulled from the spot had some collectible appeal to it. I began wrapping specimens as I recovered them and stowing them in my pack. It wasn't long before I had filled it and needed to carry the larger specimen to the truck, which was now on the OTHER side of the windrow. I decided to carry it down to the quarry floor and take the long way around to get the truck.
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