Hooded Seal - gem serpentine with pink granite

Nice rock from a Nova Scotia beach. "Carved" with hand-held electric grinder and polisher.

51 State Flag

Here is my favorite entry:The logic of it is 51=3*17=3*( 3*3 + 2*4 )

More closely spaced variants:orI am pleased with this because it is a different generalization than the 51 state flags currently being promoted at Wikipedia. In the versions here, the idea of alternating rows of single stars is replaced with alternating rows of triples of stars. This preserves a basic symmetry that is lacking in the Wikipedia version. Also the versions here have no single star bias.

Update: Also, while I am bragging, this is the only 51 star flag, so far, that has 7 rows matched to the seven stripes along side the blue rectangle. Even the current 50 star flag matches 9 rows of stars against 7 stripes.

Some impressive competitors here

Woodpecker Pipe - black pipestone

I got this material from Joe Medicine Blanket's sister in Norris (corrected from "Norton"), SD. According to Joe, this material was used for pipes before the red pipestone was found in MN.

Octopus Brooch

Transparent Heart

That "pretty bug" earlier was actually supposed to display something like the above.

Faust answers Wagner

lost this below. Lets upload it again:



Sorry about that singing. I had to change the music.

I wash my hands of the whole damn situation

Verse 1:

I wash my hands of the whole damn situation
Don't tell me how never-more will be
Don't ask me to sit and watch the time go bye
Till my end.

Chorus:
        How can I wait any longer?
       Apart and all alone,
       no - no - no - 
       don't leave me here
       so far from home. 

       don't leave me here
       so far from home. 

Verse 2:
         I wish I believed in revelation
         had faith some god cared for me
         but over and over it's just family and friends
        that I see.