We will see if we can get it all in one spot.
This should really help during treasure hunts.
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Continuing to practice this new 3D gif technique I decided to share a very beautiful meteorite that I have been keeping on my desk. I am thinking about selling this one, and have had some offers, but as far as meteorites go it is considered a real stunner. It weighs 805g and is about fist size. It is an amazing handful of space.
If you are new to the whole idea of owning a meteorite they are "shooting stars" that have anough mass to survive the fiery entrance through the atmosphere. Usually the mass explodes during this phase releases tremendous amounts of energy. Then fragments of the meteorite with a blackend fusion crust rain down onto the Earth's surface. The ones we find are sometimes witnessed and collected within days of being in space, and some are found after 10's of thousands of years here on the planet. Eventually they weather away and form new as a terrestrial stone if enough time passes.
We do sell some meteorites at the shop. We have some Lunar, an Iron called Gebel Kamil (which is the core of a planetesimal that no longer exists due to a shattering impact), and a beautiful representative of the asteroid belt named HaH 346, or Ghadamis in the trade. It is totally cool if you just want to come check them out too. I spent days staring at them in museums when I was younger. Now you can come to the shop and hold an actualy laboratory certified piece of the moon!
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Having fun learning some new photoshop tutorials I decided to use this new "BeLeaf You're Worth It" bath bomb that Jennifer recently made. I thought the sparkly gold salts embedded in the deep forest green Monstera leaf would look good againsy the sunlit mint in the garden behind our shop. I ran a tester with one of these and it was a certified banger. The water turned a deep green like an enchanted emerald pool and the cucumber, honey, oakmoss and sandlewood scent combined into something new. Thinking about it, the smell also said enchanted forest. Like right after a rain. Anyway, I hope you dig the technique and the bath bombs are available at the shop.
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I have so much stuff that I like going on that the to-do list only gets bigger, not smaller. One of my tasks was to check the carnivorous plant bog gardens at the shop for mosquitoes. In an old aquarium garden I was delighted to find this crew of youngins instead.
These are Pacific Tree Frog tadpoles. I learned quite a bit about them researching for this post that I didn't know such as they are primarily herbivores eating plankton and organic detritus as you can see in the videos. They also have enclosed gills. The rapid transformation into a frog is guided by their thyroid. The very long intestine needed to process plants shortens while preparing for an insect based diet. Their cartilaginous skulls change into bone. I also learned that the mouth undergoes a similarly radical transformation as it changes from a plant grinding structure to the surprise tongue based attacks of the mature frog.
The sunlight was just right to capture the radiance throughout the body that I have only seen in the adult frog's eyes. I came back to do a 2nd round of photos after not being satisfied with the first and that is when I noticed the entire troupe of mature frogs also living among the pitcher plants. They felt left out of the photoshoot so we focused on them for a while too.
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Here is a detail of a Pacific Tree Frog tadpole that is spending its formative years in a bog garden at our shop.
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I had some time off so I went up to the village to chill out. Perfect timing because when I got there the guys were just pulling salmon off the grill.
The crew reported the dating app thing was a dud. Not enough users close enough to match. #norcalproblems
I said, "I got an idea. I saw a poster at S.T.I.L. This weekend, real life, face to face."
They weren't sure at first but things worked out better than expected. I got some video. Judge for yourself.
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Grateful to have witnessed such an amazing event.
Our friend Susan called Jen and said "Let's go try to see the Aurora!" We were all in. Knowing it was at least kinda happening we forsook the long drive up Kneeland and went for the coastal dunes near Samoa. On the way over the bridges I burst in delight as I looked north and saw pillars of crimson light over a saturated green horizon.
This rare opportunity was due to a massive solar storm that send energetic particles on a collision course with Earth. Bent by our magnetic field the particles collide with our atmosphere ionizing the gasses. This causes the gasses to light up like a neon sign or "wizard globe". This is plasma and is the fourth state of matter.
Most of the pics are not true to life due to camera magic. The less bright ones are more how we experienced the event but they don't capture how cool it really was.
Small chance it happens again tonight (Saturday), fingers crossed.
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Go outside now!
First image camera magic, second image true to eye.
Once in a lifetime!
Go somewhere darkwith a northwen view, adjust your eyes, avoid all lights. l
Looks promising for another half hour plus.
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I have always been into replica and fantasy stuff so it is cool to combine that with glass.
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