Taking in Life Around Me........#SundayStills Color challenge

This #sundaystills challenge is hosted by Terri from Second Wind Leisure. It's a great themed photography challenge that you'll enjoy. I love seeing the other participants interpretation of the theme each week...it causes me to think outside the box. I joined in hopes of it pushing me to get out and take more photos...I have to some degree, but I also like that Terri is okay with us finding photos in our archives, which is also a lot of fun. So check out my photos and then head over to Terri's page to participate or visit other's posts. There are some awesome contributors who always inspire me.

Well, I almost didn't join in this week because I just didn't think I had anything. BUT, while I have nothing to share in the way of diamonds, diamond shapes, etc. I did look up quartz, and turns out that quartz is one of the most common minerals in the earths crust and is found in almost every form of rock. So I decided that instead of going off of a "color", I would share some unique rocks that probably have a form of quartz in them. Terri, I sure hope one of your next prompts isn't "gems/rocks"...lol.. 

On our trip to Colorado we visited a really neat museum in Leadville (at least I think that's where this was). Anyways, what a neat collection and while I didn't see the word "quartz", when I googled about it, some of the names here are a "type" of quartz.. 

I thought this photo was interesting with the gold flakes in the quartz. It is amazing how many types of minerals look before being cut into and/or polished.  This museum was so fascinating and so well put together. 

A dear friend of ours who lives on our property is VERY gifted and talented. His drawings are spectacular, but he also does a lot of rock work. He got our grandkids addicted to rocks, gems, minerals of all sorts. He can take something ordinary and turn it into something beautiful. The above photo I snapped when he had our grandkids co-op up when they were learning about geology, rocks and minerals. He did such a great job. 

The photo above and the next two below are of some larger stones he cut and added to our pots that we turned into downspouts. They're pretty cool, and look pretty when wet. 

These two photos (above and below) are rocks I've found and some of them he polished for me. 

The above rocks he turned and polished to look like eggs. I love them. 

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin