My last two posts were “Two Decade Photo Gallery,” displaying the 1,356 Carver Agate Field polished specimens, followed by a second gallery highlighting 20 years of approximately 1,000 Carver Agate Field cabs. After these exhaustive compilations of approximately 2,300 Carver Agate Field “beauties” came summer chores and gardening. The gardening was challenging and time consuming, but ultimately very successful. I have taken short breaks from my gardening and now, following the killing frost, I am ready to show you some of the beautiful and interesting specimens which I have cut and polished this summer during my breaks.
It will take several posts over the next several weeks to bring the best of these new stones to this website. I continue to be amazed and delighted to find new and different material taken solely from the wonderfully diverse and geologically astounding Carver Agate Field of West Texas. The following photos are some of this summer’s finds and work which I hope you will enjoy.
In addition, a new gallery — Summer 2025 Gallery — is now available with all of the specimens mentioned in this posting, plus two more postings coming your way soon!
Rock #6374
Rock #6317
Rock #6318
Rock #6411
Rock #6413
Rock #6056
Rock #6061
Rock #6062
Rock #6067
Rock #6125
Rock #6126
Rock #6127
Rock #6163
Rock #6177
Rock #6219
Rock #6231
Rock #6233
Rock #6250
Rock #6252
Rock #6257
Rock #6291
Rock #6306
Rock #6377
Rock #6393
Rock #6412
Rock #6415
Rock #6421
Rock #6450
Rock #6451
Rock #6452
Rock #6453
Rock #6456
6453–is a spear for the hunter—not for a gatherer! Yet, I know the hunter of so many thousands of years ago never saw anything like this as they did not cut nor polish though rocks were a part of their weaponry. When was the beauty in the geode first seen? How? Yes, that is something for me to find out. Many years ago, I took my nieces who are now in their 30’s to a cavern. Geodes were for sale, not from anywhere around the cave, but they cut them which delighted them as they picked their geode and waited for it to be cut. Yours are always so beautifully cut and polished—I wonder if every one you cut turns out to be so beautiful or are there those geodes who internally are not that pristine. Just a thought from me who knows nothing about rocks, though I spent a semester on geology in college. If the professor had shown us what you find, I might have pursued it.