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GMS Adopt-a-Highway Field Trip
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Tiny Almandine Garnets in Georgia
Saturday, March 31, 2018
As always, adopt-a-highway trash pick-up volunteers were rewarded for their hard work with a field trip. This time, we collected tiny garnets for grab bags (and a few cool one's to keep for ourselves, too).
The garnets are everywhere! You can't miss them. It's so much fun to collect those little guys! We quickly collected plenty of garnets for grab bags, then started finding some large (for that location) garnets, too.
Many thanks to the property owners for allowing us to visit this wonderful place and many thanks to field trip chair Charles Carter for arranging such a fun trip.
Lori Carter
On behalf of Charles Carter, GMS Field Trip Chair
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Photo by Lori Carter
Ivy got to work right away
Photo by Lori Carter
Charles and Juergen were working hard too...
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Lizabeth got close to the ground
Photo by Lori Carter
Leslie worked more towards the woods
Photo by Lori Carter
So many garnets you can't see the ground!
Photo by Lori Carter
Martha Carroll started finding bigger garnets...
Photo by Lori Carter
...so Charles started looking, too...
Photo by Lori Carter
...and he found this cool specimen!
Photo by Lori Carter
Lizabeth noticed something moving. It was this ant, pulling something...
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...it was pulling this spider! AAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!
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Fascinating how much weight a tiny ant can pull, but my eyes need some rest...
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Fortunately, there were some pretty things there for happy thoughts.
Photo by Lori Carter
Yes, Gilligan, that was quite a day!
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