June 5th Biscuit! (And other specimens pending!)

[Mr_Rosenheim]

Found in a dinky little tributary in Sugar Creek Metro Park: in Sugar Creek Ohio. This would be the same area In which bagged my two Ohioan Geodes; and the very reason I hied off to this place (on June the 5th) for a 3rd chance at looking for these rarefied geodes. With this trip though - it was raining like all hell, like the meltage from a polar ice cap made into a slushy... well not quite but it was seriously coming down. Meanwhile I was jumping from weensy sized creek, to weensy sized creek, and I got a taste of what flash flooding would be like if I were in a larger body of water; a feeling sets in as if you are the size of a water strider... with out the luxury of foot-skies.

After a time I was dripping wet and felt like soddy compost was stuck to my clothes; my light was starting to go since the storm clouds seemed too paint everything black, and I was thinking this was going to be a [PoorWordUsage]ey trip. That is until the sun finally started peeking through after about three hours (of on and off) drizzle and I came upon (humped over in the creek) a little glimmer topped shard that looked like a broken biscuit. I reached down, scooped it up and tried to find a light-hole punching through the trees, and what I saw was this:

A Clear Chalcedony, Coquelicot Red, Fulvous orange/brown and Blue eyed Agate biscuit. A mouth full I know (lol), but in some ways it reminds me of a Woodward Ranch Agate Biscuit; the only place I know that is a household name, where agates occur as biscuits. (http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/woodward-ranch-large-agate-biscuit)

Little, but colorful.

[Mr_Rosenheim]

As promised here are the rest of the Agate goods; and this time I was a prudent as Prudent Man (Agate) in getting them to the forum in practical time.

The First one isn't to kicking in looks, but it is a rather neat vuggy Carnelian looking Agate:

Next is the oddity, what looks to be an Agate Pseudo-morph of Agate & a refractive, micaceous, laminar mineral. I thought it might be a type of Gypsum, or even Feldspar? This stone was found by my mother, and she even thinks its as ugly as Bes (The Egyptian Dwarf God).

Here it is:

Last up is a freckled, folded, greenly Agate that I found landing on a shelf in Spring Valley Ohio while canoeing. This one is waxed up so much as is, that it didn't even need a coat of Mineral Oil. Also it has shadowed wing like, black banding that shows through in spots... adding for a neat affect; and with as much of a mottle in colors that it has, I think it may have plumes.

Here it is:

Enjoy!