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[chris]

For those who prefer friendlier creatures, a couple of ibexes.

[chris]

The above photo was taken not very far from the Mont Aiguille (Needle like mountain) in the Vercors range near Grenoble. For the story this mountain was climbed for the first time in 1492 by Antoine de Ville at Charles VIII's request making it the first or one of the first recorded climb.

[Jordi Fabre]

There is a crack a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

[Jordi Fabre]

[Bruce Friedman]

No hablo French. Help, por favor, en English.

Bruce Friedman

[Jordi Fabre]

The lightness of the weight

[Dany Mabillard]

[Tobi]

[cascaillou]

Quarantine entertainment:

https://www.discogs.com/lists/Crystals-Minerals-Gems/576296 :-)
(link normalized by FMF)

[Bruce Friedman]

Thank you Dany for taking the time to translate. Very much appreciated.

Bruce Friedman

[Dany Mabillard]

[Jordi Fabre]

After 43 days of strict confinement at home, yesterday was the first day in Spain that children under 14 years old were allowed outside. There are some rules limiting what children can do outside from now on, and unfortunately not everyone was following those rules. Anyway, here we see Alfredo Petrov's daughter Rumi enjoying her newfound liberty in the beautiful little mountain town of Viladrau (while still following the social distancing rules)

[Jordi Fabre]

Golden wish

[Bob Harman]

You might be surprised how many collectors don't realize that these gold specimens and those similar ones from the Eagle's Nest Mine in California have been extensively etched out of the quartz.
The delicate gold leaf does not ever grow freely like that, so the specimens have to be extensively prepared.
Nice specimen, but not remotely the way it was originally found in the natural state. Bob

[Riccardo Modanesi]

Hi to everybody! Here in Italy the situation is a little better than 3 weeks ago. The people admitted in hospital are decreasing day by day, and moreover the people needing intensive therapy, but still there were almost 400 deaths today. On May 4 we can just walk out of our home, but we can't go out of our municipality, but for job and primary necessity. No restaurants until (at least) June, no museum until (at least) May 18, just some factories and small shops are opening on next May 4. But we are starting to see a small light at the end of this bloody tunnel. Masks and gloves are of course compulsory whenever we go out and we have to keep at least 1 m distance even in our home with our family!
Ok, never surrender! Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.