Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Spooky rocks

The way people are attracted to rocks will always fascinate me. I watch people come into our booth, walk round and round looking at all the rocks on the tables but they keep going back to the same table, to the same rock. It may be the colour, the texture, who knows, but different people are attracted to different rocks and I am sure, most times, they have no idea that they are.
One lady had done just this. She had said a couple of times while walking around how lovely our rocks were, how colourful, so different to anything else in the show, as so many people say. But I could see her keep returning to the box of unpolished Mookaite slabs. Eventually she stopped at it and started going through them.
Mookaite is very colourful and it doesn't take much imagination to see pictures in the rocks.
Suddenly she held one slab up and exclaimed, "That's the Arizona desert!"
That was the one she had to have!
Then, when purchasing their rock, people are so pleased when they see we supply a label naming it and giving its location, it becomes their treasure.



Quartzsite sunset.


Mountains in the morning.

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