I have to admit, I have a hard time finding shadow photos worth sharing, but I got one I liked recently. I'll get to it later in this post. First the story behind it.I was up in Utah and Nevada digging topaz and garnets, among other precious minerals, this past weekend. A friend had given me the ok to go dig on one of his claims, the Solar Wind Claim, which is famous for rare, pink topaz, as well as large bixbyite cubes.

I just got back from a 5 day trip too Utah and Nevada and I traveled on some of the loneliest roads I've ever been on! One oof them was the Pony Express through the desert. Honestly, some of them were frightening because if you broke down there is no service and no one is coming to save you.

I was never really a fan of the saxophone until I heard The Midnight's "Vampires". The saxophone in that song goes hard. It made me realize that some of my favorite songs had saxophones in them and I didn't ever really think about it. Now I do. Check out these three tunes with bad ass saxophones in them, starting with one of the best.

I caught my first SpaceX launch light show over Southern California last night, except it wasn't Spacex? It was a completely different company called Firefly Aerospace, . I had no idea there are multiple companies launching rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base, now referred to as Vandenberg Space Force Base.

It's not often that commies pay homage to other commies, but when they do, they rock! Check out these tunes by North Korea and The PLA with a bonus palette cleanser tune!First up is North Korea.Killing In The Name Performed By The North Korean Military Chorus

I was up in the northern Nevada desert the other weekend hunting for copper minerals like malachite, azurite & chrysocolla. Hiking around various mines there were bugs and lizards everywhere it seemed. This one lizard even jumped down on a rock right in front of me.