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botmo package arrived Thursday, and this afternoon I took a good look at it under natural light. This month is full of interesting inclusions (in quartz), and lapis lazuli and such. I sprung for the Mother of All Magpies package this time; apparently I was the lucky person who got three of the really cool Persian lapis beads. I was going to say that my favorite were the shiny black squares, but then I remembered the translucent beads with the long thin black inclusions. Now I need to think about what to do with all these shinies, and with last month's ("blood and roses") garnets.
The first crocuses in my neighborhood are blooming: deep yellow (almost orange) dwarf crocuses, next to one of the nearby buildings. (The patch of light purple ones in this userpic, which are usually first locally, aren't showing buds yet.)
The weather this evening didn't match any of the recent forecasts (which included snow, rain, cloudiness, and thunderstorms). Instead, we got a good look at the lunar eclipse, or as good a look as is possible when the Moon rises already eclipsed, and totality is past by the time it's above the nearby hills and buildings. (It was still pretty close to total when we went outside, just over half-eclipsed when we went back inside. There was nice red color on the eclipsed part.
botmo package arrived Thursday, and this afternoon I took a good look at it under natural light. This month is full of interesting inclusions (in quartz), and lapis lazuli and such. I sprung for the Mother of All Magpies package this time; apparently I was the lucky person who got three of the really cool Persian lapis beads. I was going to say that my favorite were the shiny black squares, but then I remembered the translucent beads with the long thin black inclusions. Now I need to think about what to do with all these shinies, and with last month's ("blood and roses") garnets.The first crocuses in my neighborhood are blooming: deep yellow (almost orange) dwarf crocuses, next to one of the nearby buildings. (The patch of light purple ones in this userpic, which are usually first locally, aren't showing buds yet.)
The weather this evening didn't match any of the recent forecasts (which included snow, rain, cloudiness, and thunderstorms). Instead, we got a good look at the lunar eclipse, or as good a look as is possible when the Moon rises already eclipsed, and totality is past by the time it's above the nearby hills and buildings. (It was still pretty close to total when we went outside, just over half-eclipsed when we went back inside. There was nice red color on the eclipsed part.