I had to go back.
Around the rock above McIvor Lake, lying scattered on the moss, loose on the surface, I found many stones; little broken slabs, flat pieces, as if they'd been chipped off the main rock. Winter weathering, maybe? Ice does that.
I picked up a few pieces. Greyish, greenish stone; one was full of raised bubbles of whitish stone. Quartz.
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| As found, with a Douglas-fir cone for the size. |
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| A closer look. |
I brought this stone home and took photos of those bubbles.
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| Looks like a few have popped out. Maybe they're still in the original rock face. |
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| Kitty sculpture? |
The brown and green stone is soft, easily scratched with any metal. (I tried with an old copper coin: 3 on the Mohs Hardness Scale; steel is 5.5, diamond 10. I didn't try scratching it with a diamond; I don't have one.) The white bubbles wouldn't take a mark; quartz is 7 on the scale, harder than my steel file.
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| This one is brown and scratchable, but it has hard, green intrusions. |
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| Whitish on one side, hard, and boring grey on the other, and full of white squiggles in the centre. |
And there was more to see!
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| A black "button" lichen. Possibly Sunken Button Lichen, Buellia spuria. Although there are several almost identical. |
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| Zooming in. A white lichen with black fruiting bodies. Black lines separate individual lichens. |
And there was yet more. I'll leave that for tomorrow.
Tuve que regresar.
Alrededor de la roca en la ladera arriba del lago McIvor, regadas dondequiera sobre el musgo, sueltas, encontré muchas piedras: piezas rotas, planas, que parecían haberse separados de la roca madre. ¿Por la acción del hielo, posiblemente? Suele romper rocas grandes.
Recogí algunas piedras. Eran de color gris, o casi verde; una estaba llena de burbujas blancas de otra piedra. Cuarzo.
1. Como la encontré. Con un cono de abeto de Douglas para dar el tamaño.
2. Acercándome.
Me traje esta piedra a casa para examinarla y sacar más fotos.
3. Las "burbujas". Parece que algunas han dejado nada más el hueco donde estaban. Tal vez se encuentran todavía encrustadas en la roca madre.
4. ¿Una escultura de un gatito?









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