June 2018 Picnic and Auction

Potluck Picnic Food

Members brought a delicious array of potluck food







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Oh, sorry. Saw that picture of Sue Gorday's fig pickles and had to run to the kitchen
for my daily Sue Gorday fig pickle fix.

Mary R. put together a beautiful beach theme

Let's eat!!!

Auction Items

Sparkly petrified wood from Alabama

Pretty Petoskey Stone

Ray mouthplate fossils

Fantastic trilobite just for juniors!

Dino poop!

Botryoidal malachite from Zaire

Hunk o' magnesite dyed to look like turquoise

Incredible opalized ammonite "Placenticeras Meeki, Cretaceous, from Alberta, Canada

Barnacles and a trilo-butt (pygidium)

Jar of opals!

Some rockhounding gear

Mayfly larvae fossil

Fossilized fish spine!

Fossilized leaf!

Holocene leaf?

Malachite with tenorite

Giant calcite specimen from Mexico

Pooping dinos

Peaches from South Carolina!

A box of rocks plus a lilypad growing kit

Amazing ammonite Placenticeras

Glow in the dark dino kit just for juniors to bid on!

'Taters from Ellijay. Oh, there's a box of obsidian that goes with the taters too.

Field notebook made for really being in the field!

Pretty pendant

Suberb pyrite from Peru!

A little reading on the rocks

Turquoise and coral and silver -- oh my!

Exquisite echinoids

Enormous ammonite

Speaking of enormous -- look at those sharks' teeth!

Spectacular sand selenite from Chihuaha, Mexico

Quartz, sphalerite, and fluorite from Illinois -- magnificent!