Rocks & Relics booth in the early morning hours before opening. |
Sunday morning quietude pervaded the hall. |
Rose Quartz display case. |
Blue Forest Petrified Wood display case. |
Sharks Tooth Hill display case |
Assorted petrified wood display case |
Agates from around the world display case. |
Agates from across the United States display case. |
Display case with assorted and more monumental petrified wood specimens. |
Assorted petrified wood display case. |
Assorted petrified wood case. |
Carbon minerals display case. |
Polished sphere display case including an Australian petrified "peanut wood" sphere. |
Outgoing OGMS President (and soon-to-be V.P.) Louisa Carey's Green Case. |
Assorted petrified wood display case. |
Fossil leaf display case. |
Assorted petrified wood display case. |
Gypsum/Selenite display case. |
Scary Gary From Tulare scaring me. |
Gary Robertson sorting money faster than the camera's eye can see... DO NOT play cards with this man! |
David Richter putting the finishing touches in preparing his booth for the day. |
Liquid sunshine was one of the things we were concerned about aside from the economy and drunks in the park. |
Initially it appeared the rain would keep folks from coming out today but that is not what ended up happening. |
World-renowned paleo-botanist Walter Wright talking petrified wood with Dave. |
A gorgeous Argentinian Rhodochrosite sphere being polished by Ray Quitoriano as part of his demonstration of such. |
C.J. Quitoriano has written on her childhood report cards "plays with fire". |
C.J.'s fire-breathing glass dragon. |
CFMS president and OGMS-member Jim Brace-Thompson and Ismael Sanchez of the Bakersfield Mineral Mites. |
Stephanie Hagiwara of the OGMS in a photoshooting standoff with guess who. |
Norb Kinsler was the show chairman this year and I christaned him "The Norbster". |
Some of the Rocks & Relics offerings this day. |
Andy and Sonia DeLong responding to my suggestion she divorce him and marry me instead. |
In spite of and/or because of the hard rain today folks really showed up this afternoon. |
The mirage of solidity and permanency to the Rocks & Relics booth now gone with the dismantling of it. |
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved)
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