Yellow & Blue

Well, Mineral proved to be a very interesting challenge and what I liked is that most people had found out a little about their mineral so I learnt loads!  These are some of the minerals offered: rutile, ilmenite, zircon, monazite, jade, ruby, silver, gold, crystal, quartz, malachite, sea salt (sodium chloride), opal, jasper, agate, gabbro, soapstone, calcium carbonate, octahedrite, amethyst, pounamu, iron, carnelian, slate, steel, rose rock, fool's gold (pyrite), copper, lepidolite, lapis lazuli, granite and sapphire! Thanks so much to everyone who took part and here are my faves:
Ingeborg               Jade
California Girl       Silver
Crispin25              Lapis lazuli
Terrifo                   Silver & gold
rmeinz                  Octahedrite


Honourable Mentions
Cygnus            Agate
Steveng           Malachite
AnnieBelle      Calcium carbonate
DollyDoug       Cosmic crystals
Carolina           Malachite

The Challenges page at the moment seems to be having problems but I'll put the results up as soon as possible. Meanwhile enjoy Silver & Gold.

My pic today is a little blue looking rather scenic on a buttercup!

And there's a a new blog

We're heading east to savour the delights of County Wicklow and back blips will probably be in order. Catch you next week.