Geode City

We didn't discover the vast amount of new and different wildflowers we expected to find today on our trek. Instead, we discovered a vast hillside, actually two of them separated by a canyon, of geodes. There were few of them that you could actually break open with a hammer and see the quartz and crystal inside. Instead, these were all molten and spread out on the hillside for everyone to see. It was like you took a giant geode, five or six acres in size, and spead it inside out on the hill. There were many broken bits of them in the tumbled rocks down the hillside, but the best ones were still embedded in the hill, showing off their stuff.

We still had our picnic. We still took a few pictures of wildflowers. But here we were so hot to find new and different wildflowers and instead stumbled on this geologic wonder. I guess it never works to make plans in advance, for the next turn in the road, something better turns up. And today it was rocks. And lots of them!