Sunday, September 07, 2008

Blue Agate

Welcome to Blue Monday, hosted by Sally at Smiling Sal. Be sure to click on her logo and visit all of the other participants!
For the first Blue Monday, I had kind of a lame-o post, showing blue things I had already used for other topics. So of course, this week I wanted to have something really good! It should be very easy for me to have blue photos, my whole house has blue elements in it. But, because of my shaky hands, I usually take blurry pictures. Thus my nephew, Frick, takes most of the pictures for me. Well, he's back to school and I haven't had a chance for him to take my blue pictures.
I was looking around my house at all the blue elements, and one of the best things I have is a wind chime made of blue agate. My sister and her family brought it back for me from their trip to Arizona last year. I keep it hung from the curtain rod in the living room, and I love the way the light reflects off of it. This made me decide to search flickr for blue agate! There was jewelry, sculptures, housewares, whole stones, everything under the sun! I decided to go with the slices and choose pictures that only showed the agate, no big background or other props.
Photo Credits:
1. Blue Lace Agate Geode, 3. Blue geode on blue sky, 4. blue geode: crystal cave, 5. Blue geode, 6. Quartzsite Market: Blue Geodes, 7. Picture 104, 8. Blue & White with Smoky Quartz, 9. Abstract Geology, 10. blue geode, 11. Blue Lace Agate Geode From Rio Grande, Brazil, 12. more spider on a geode, 13. Psychedelic geode #1 14. Not available 15. Not available 16. Not available

14 comments:

Smilingsal said...

Oh, Elizabeth, this was worth waiting for! What beautiful blues you've shared today. Thank you for pushing through and getting the job done!

I do like the shade of your wind chimes the best.

Llyn M said...

Beautiful wind chime!! Thanks for commenting on my blog, and Happy Blue Monday!!

judicreations said...

Your blue agate pictures are just beautiful. Oh my. Isn't it something to imagine what beautiful things this world can produce. Loved it. Your wind chime is very unusual too...what a conversation piece. Very nice.
Thank you for sharing your Blue Monday and thank you for stopping by my blog too.
Hope you had a lovely day.
Judi

imjacobsmom said...

What beautiful agates. Isn't nature amazing?

Jeanne said...

Elizabeth, gorgeous blue post. Franklin,NC where I live, is called the Gem Capital of the world. We have a huge collection of geodes and gems sliced for show downtown in a small museum. We take all of our company there for an outing and they are always fascinated. A great post.

Hugs...Jeanne

Laura Ingalls Gunn said...

Such breathtakingly natural beauty.

Carolyn (Harbor Hon) said...

Love the colors of blue you chose. Very stimulating to look at. The spider kinda freaked me, but I'll deal with it. You come up with some fascinating posts. xxoo

Lana G! said...

I have shaky hands too! You need one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1220936867/ref=a9_sc_1?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=gorillapod

Really helps!

The blue agates are amazing!

DYSFUNCTIONAL MOM said...

Gorgeous!

Justine said...

Ooh, that is some gorgeous stuff! The colors are so intense!

Justine :o )

Charli and me said...

I love all of the beautiful blues in your post.

nikkicrumpet said...

Blue never looked so good! Amazing how mother nature can achieve those gorgeous shades of blue!

Carrie said...

Beautiful agate photos...Thanks for telling me about the Blue Monday meme.

Lisa said...

I really love blue jays. They are beautiful birds.