CAN ANYONE HELP ME IDENTIFY THIS STONE? Weighs 2 lbs., 3 oz. and is 5.75″ long. Botryoidal in formation. Overall deep blue-green in color. Central, circularly-radiating ochre-colored cores within each sphere. Found on Haida Gwaii, (Queen Charlotte Islands), off the coast of British Columbia. Doesn’t seem to be scratched by steel. (Click on each image for [...]

My return to Haida Gwaii was so complex and deeply personal that any public writing about it will, by choice, only skim the surface of the experience. Last week, in Italian style, I trained up to Vancouver B.C., spent the day and night, then hopped on a puddle jumper to fly north for two hours. [...]