Snakes and Stones

[Lord Sorril]

To those who celebrate the holiday in the USA: Have a Great Thanksgiving!


Note: Axanthic Bee was only exposed to the UV light for 2 seconds.

[Bogertophis]

To those who celebrate the holiday in the USA: Have a Great Thanksgiving!


Note: Axanthic Bee was only exposed to the UV light for 2 seconds.

Wow, a blue ball python! I'll second the wish- Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #452

Beryl from NH (USA), with an Orange Dream/Het Pied ball python.

Side Story:
Got myself in some trouble this Thanksgiving...
One of my friends gave his wife a ring as an early Christmas present.
When he was out of the room-she handed it to me and asked me to ID the stone.
I'm no jeweler, but, it was a silver setting with a stone ~3 carats, deep green, with a high gloss and very fine parallel inclusions, seemed a bit yellowish at some angles.
I knew my friend wouldn't be so cheap as to give her a cubic zirconia (my first thought)-so I guessed Green Diopside, or *maybe* Synthetic Emerald.
She told me with 100% certainty that it was a real emerald...to which I laughed. Emerald is a type of green beryl. Beryl is very prone to inclusions (as shown above).
I explained that if it *was* a real emerald then with the clarity and color would make it easily worth several thousand dollars.
I handed the ring back to her and she seemed pretty annoyed, but, didn't say anything else during my visit.
Today I get a call and my friend is super pissed at me-his wife had taken the ring to a jeweler yesterday-it was not an emerald. Now she is mad at him, and he is mad at me...*sigh*

[Homebody]

That side story is pretty funny.

[Lord Sorril]

I always like to look, but, I very rarely buy anything at flea markets-aside from some cheap fossils and the occasional uranium glass dish.
I saw a neat candle holder the other day-it was only a couple bucks.

Photo #453

Rocks are assorted agate, petrified wood, quartz, and jasper (various locations).
Ball python is a Pastel Piebald.

Side Story:
I have been working on making some new digital artwork to replace the images in my Ball-Pythons.net profile gallery.
It has been taking weeks, but, regardless of my effort: BP.net has a 12MB limit---it is too bad that when I finish them I will have to post the images in low resolution.
I could host them on my own service (like I do with my Snakes and Stones photos), but, there is no gallery option on this site for that.