Autumn illumination... What is it about the suns rays in the Autumn... the way they capture the eye, the way they take on a different quality that demands you notice them before the bleakness of Winter
Calcite with quartz from Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China. The pictured specimen is 7cm tall. The quartz at the center of the stacked calcite disks is better exposed in some of the specimens that they have at the show. Photo credit: Jeffrey A. S