This week ABC Wednesday has reached the letter Q.
In keeping with my attempt to post rocks and minerals,
Q
is for
QUARTZ
Quartz is one of the commonest minerals in the Earth's crust. Anything you want to know about quartz (and probably a lot more than you want to know!) can be found here. Clear quartz is often known as rock crystal.
This first photo is of three natural quartz crystals, about 2 inches long.
Quartz crystals can be bought in many sizes and forms. Often, broken pieces are tumble-polished, and end up looking like perfect, solid water.
Quartz can also be carved - by those with sufficient skill! - into various shapes. The one below, naturally, is a dragon.
Quartz crystals can be bought in many sizes and forms. Often, broken pieces are tumble-polished, and end up looking like perfect, solid water.
Quartz can also be carved - by those with sufficient skill! - into various shapes. The one below, naturally, is a dragon.
ABC Wednesday is the brainchild of Mrs Nesbitt.
Many more entries can be found on the Anthology site, or through the dedicated Linky page.
Enjoy!
36 comments:
What a beautiful dragon, I love that one!! Thank God for Quartz, if you do an alphabet, q is never easy!
'Q'uite the thing...
A stony Q...
hello Dragonstar,
I told you on the Q blog that I am really impressed by you Q this day, its cristal right?
Mine is here:
www.joannwalraven.blogspot.com
Hope to see you, Greetings
What a stone!!!
It's such an everyday mineral and yet it's so lovely.
What a gorgeous dragon!
I like the "naturally it's a dragon" line. It's so cute. Quartz it had to be but the quirky qaurtz dragon a bonus.
Love the dragon, I am sure you knew I would :-)
The quartz is a beautiful mineral indeed!! Without it, we sure would be at a loss with so much in this world, would we?
A very good post! =)
{hug}
I love quartz, especially the colored variety. The dragon is lovely!
I have a few quartz samples; but I did not know they could be carved. Beautiful dragon!
What better than a crystallized Q for ABC. Good choice, Dragonstar!
You have some lovely pieces!
Q was easy for you!
I'm a fan of quartz, have lots of pieces, but nothing like your lovely dragon.
Talking of Dragons - have my third hatchling now.
Off to click on yours.
Very unique post! Wonderful photos.
Ooh - I love that quartz dragon. I want one!
Hi Dragonstar,
Yes, Q is not an easy letter to do.
You did just fine.
Of course; a quartz dragon !
Where would we be without quartz, DD?
Great post. . .I'm particularly fond of rose quartz.
Happy Wednesday!
I love your litle dragon. Quarts is greate for the ABC!
Quartz can be beautiful as diamond for a lot less in price. That's a great dragon carving. I used to use quartz rods to study acoustic wave propagation, once upon a time.
Of course you had to show the photo of the quartz dragon.
Perfect for today.
Bear((( )))
I work in a museum and we have a mineral area...and we have lots of Quartz in Cumbria...very fine Post!!
What a cute dragon! It looks tiny!
Kisses, sweetie, thanks for your kind words on my Petropolis! :o)
I love your quartz dragon ...
:-Daryl
How perfectly wonderful, a quartz dragon.
The quartz dragon was remarkable.
oooh shiny beads!
I like the dragon - what skill!
Nice shots and good idea for the letter!
Tanks for stopping by.
I do love these precious stones. What a great Q.
I have many piece of quartz, too. I just love the purity of it.
As I suspected, you are a much better dragon caregiver than I. I only managed to bring one so far to adulthood. I am still doing my part to make sure your little egg hatches!
I am glad you shared these this week. They are very beautiful. Do you have any idea why Mr. Linky was messed up this week? Hope you have a wonderful day.
Wo, your babies are growing up fastly! :o)
Just tagged you again, Miss Dragon, poor you...
Kisses from Nydia.
What a beautiful dragon made of quartz! Your gems are always precious they leave me in awe!
A quartz dragon! Only you would have one! LOL Great choice.
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