We hunted oceanside and cut some of our rock finds. I also cover a lot of the local history including the construction of the tunnels. youtu.be/8urjmlA9J9s?... #rockhounding #rockhound #jasper #agate #chalcedony #lapidary #oregoncoast #oregon #youtube #portland #portlandor #oceanside #beachcombing

How Big Was the Kamchatka Earthquake? youtube.com/shorts/NCDAh...

Orange Rocks Lie Part 2…slabbing orange enigmas on my saw #rockcutting youtube.com/shorts/0Vpzz... #rockhounding #rockhound #lapidary #picturejasper #jasper #slabbing #slabsaw 🪨🤘

Orange Rocks Lie… Wait Until You See What’s Underneath youtube.com/shorts/vY1gY... #rockhounding #rockhound #lapidary #picturejasper #jasper #slabbing #slabsaw 🪨🤘

Here is our latest rockhounding adventure! Seaside, OR surprised me both with its natural history and it’s rock cuts! Rockhounding Seaside, Oregon: Bland Rocks With INSANE Surprises Inside youtu.be/iov2BYnBprI #rockhounding #seasideoregon #oregon #oregoncoast #lapidary #slabbing #slabs #youtube

Here’s our latest rock cutting video! Enjoy! youtu.be/G_udxmnjeCM #rockcutting #lapidary #rockhound #satisfying #rhyolite #ironstone #agate #slabbing #pebblerebels

Seattle sunsets these last couple nights. There’s a fire next to Lake Cushman in the Olympics. Bad air quality but epic sunsets! #seattle #sunsets #sailboat #olympicsfire

I Cut a Rock—It Turned Into a Mountain youtube.com/shorts/3Kxau... #rockhounding #lapidary #rocks #slabbing #slabbingstones #mountrainier

Don’t judge a rock by its crust. ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/s55vt... 🪨💎 #rockhounding #rockhound #lapidary #rockreveal #Ialmostdidn’ttakethathome #slabbing

Our latest rockhounding adventure is out! Help us identifying one of the stones we found! The Sandy River gave us some big surprises! youtu.be/KpyzZ9D5r_w?... #rockhounding #rhyolite #sandyriver #naturalhistory #lapidary #geology

A year ago Sean and I started a storytelling video project. Then life hit and we shelved it for many months. Well we just finished our first segment! I hope you enjoy! youtu.be/bODzlKN8XuQ #storytime #storytelling #weirdencounter #humoroftheuniverse #anxiety #anxietystories

100 subscribers on our rock channel?! Check out this Brecciated jasper from the latest adventure that has some patterns continue across fault lines, but not all! Rockhounding at Oceanside Beach and Tunnel Beach Is Full of Surprises! youtu.be/906VNxkJAgw

I’m filming some of my rock cuts. This was a fun one! youtube.com/shorts/8mHWh... #rhyolite #lapidary #igneous #rockhound #rockhounding #youtube #rockreveal 🌿🪨💎

Some of the rocks from our recent collection and cut video linked below! Rockhounding at Oceanside Beach and Tunnel Beach youtu.be/906VNxkJAgw #rockhound #lapidary #agates #jasper #rhyolite #bloodstone

My sister and I have started to run a casual rockhounding, gardening and natural science channel together. Here is a video on my first trip to Oceanside for Rockhounding. Plus some rock slabbing near the end. #rockhound #lapidary #naturalhistory 🌿🪨💎 youtu.be/906VNxkJAgw?...

You all know I love gardening, forest ecology and rocks right? youtu.be/icQqGqSX1GA?...

My sister and I have started making rockhound, lapidary, and nature videos together: Cutting four rocks with orbicular patterns! (2 ARE STUNNING!) Igneous stones cut with lapidary saw. youtu.be/eoW2QVvUiko In this video we cut open rocks with orbicular shapes to see what they look like slabbed.

Lemon balm, fringed willowherb, and selfheal in our lunch ramen. The lemon balm adds a zesty lemon flavor! #foraging

PNW foraging in recent weeks? Fringed Willow-Herb: garden had tons, added it to soup. Wavy Bittercress: Abundant in the disturbed woods nearby, also souped. Japanese Knotweed: pie & sauté. When salted it tastes like pickled grape leaf! Winter-cress: sampled on the trails. Great salad green!

I am absolutely obsessed with this piece of petrified wood. LOOK AT THAT FREAKING CELL STRUCTURE! 😍 #rockhounds #lapidary 🌿🪨 #petrifiedwood This is a Damon Point find. The tumble turned out glossy. It was 1 week each for the first three tumble steps then 3 weeks with sugar/polish for the finish.

April 5th national protests! I’ll be at the Portland march!

This week has been insane! 1.5 gallons of greens foraged this week and 6.5 gallons from our small city garden. Year so far: Forage: 6 gallons Garden: 8.5 gallons This weeks harvest? Broccoli, arugula, kale, hairy bitter cress, selfheal, lemon balm, mint, common nipplewort, and fringed willowherb.

What have I been foraging this last week? Hairy Bittercress (tastes better than the name implies) & Selfheal & Nettles Great in soups, great in Sautes, perfect quick adds to ramen! My gallons harvested for this year: Foraging: 4.5 gallons of food Gardening: 2 gallons of food

Trying one experiment with my mushroom growing set up. We have endless Himalayan blackberries around us. So if I kill the vines/leafs and use them as feed will it work well? We’ll see. #mushroomgrowing #oystermushrooms

Do any of my rock people know what this stuff is? Both chunks found along the Willamette river. #lapidary #rockhounds #whatsthisrock #maybejustmorerhyolite

This is for my rockhounds and gardeners. I put a brewers pad in my greenhouse to keep it warm, then I realized I could solve two problems at once by putting my rock tumbler in the green house instead. Now my rock tumbler AND my tomatoes won’t freeze. #efficiency #rockhounds #gardening #lifeprotip

People looking for protests to join, this is the group I trust: www.fiftyfifty.one You can search for planned protests in your area on this site, making it easy to know where to be and when. #protests #50501 #whentoprotest #protest #wherearetheprotests

Let me show you what I look for in the wild when searching for circular or orbicular patterned rhyolites. The ones here were found in Washington and Oregon. Orbicular rhyolites can be harder to spot due to their rougher looking exteriors. #rhyolite #lapidary #rockhound #rockhounding #volcanic 🪨💎🌋

That time we did a photoshoot, where the only light in the room was a china ball sitting on the floor in the closet. #photography #portrait #art #dramaticlighting

I didn’t want to spend another four years fighting nazi’s, but here we are. Don’t let them normalize their hate & greed. Their god will not forgive them their sins they won’t acknowledge. Photo of me taken by @seanthedandy.bsky.social #photography #art 🪡🧶🌿 #coastal #portrait #moody

This is a great feed for helping finding original posts from your network that get buried in reposts. ❤️ bsky.app/profile/did:...

People are afraid of moving from other social sites like facebook because they are afraid of not being able to find their friends again. Some tips to encourage friends below in the comments. Feel free to add your own.

For all my friends following me right now, thought I would also shout out Sean Parker’s profile: @seanthedandy.bsky.social

I don’t really have anymore words for today. So here is another photo from the coastal cliff shoot. #photography #portrait #coastal #ocean #dress #art

Honing in a shot during one of our coastal cliff shoots: youtube.com/shorts/yNlA7... #photography #art #behindthescenes #bts

A portrait @seanthedandy.bsky.social and I set up in the fern canyon on our honeymoon. Our outfits took 6 months for me to make. We’ve been together for 18 years now which is nearly half our lifetimes. May we have many more adventures to come. ❤️ #art #photography #fairytale 🪡🧶🌿 #portrait #dress

​Turning Within and Blossoming Without oil on panel 18 x 24 sold The things that make a person odd are odd themselves. Think of DNA…It’s odd to come back to life, as they say, she came back to life. - FROM FIDDLEHEADS BY MAUREEN SEATON www.lolajovan.com #art #figurativeart #oilpainting #moon

I need to make animatic that shows the attempts we made and changes of pose that led to this shot. It took a good long while for the pose, dress, and water to all come together. Modeled by my sister. #photography #portrait #portraitphotography #dress #gown #dressphotography #rockface 🪡🌿🧶🪨 #art

A candelabra shoot at twilight. Photo taken by @seanthedandy.bsky.social This shoot was also done with our photographer friends Lauren Zurchin & Maria Greely. So many great shots I will sure be sharing more! #photography #dressphotography #dress #art #dusk #sunset 🧶🪡 #portrait

When you pick up what you think is an interesting looking piece of quartzite and then realize later that it’s a subtle piece of petrified wood! 🙌 The rain and ocean spray was spitting in sideways that day and covering my glasses. I was pretty texture blind at the time. 😆 #rockhound #petrifiedwood

Love Anyway pen and ink, oil on Yupo 8 x 8 sold Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.- LOUISE ERDRICH #art #fantasyart

I need your opinions fellow rockhounds! Are these burn marks on petrified wood? ⛏️💎🪨 #petrifiedwood #rockhound #lapidary #geology #naturalhistory #nature

We did a shoot with a candelabra. Photo: @seanthedandy.bsky.social WARNING: We plan these photos during the wettest time of the year in one of the wettest regions. Proper gear, location, and timing is key for safe fire shoots, take no risks when unsure! #photography #art 🪡🌿🧶 #dress #candlelight

An opportune shot @seanthedandy.bsky.social took of me climbing down a rock face after getting some shots from the top. This ended up being my favorite shot from the set! #photography #art #dressphotography #cliffface #climbing 🪡🧶🌿 #model #portrait #portraitphotography #artinnature #oregon #rock

I’m sick with my seventh virus in a year. My toddler is a lovable, sweet, germ magnet. ❤️😵 Thought I would post a dress close up. This is one of the only drape dresses I’ve ever made. That four yard train was a lot of fun in the photoshoot! #sewing #draping 🪡🧶 #dressphotography #trailinggown #art

Went through an old social media account and found this video of me showing off the rose gown at a convention. Def my favorite event costume! The petals are all wired and laid over a small hoop skirt making them stiff but pose-able. #fairytale #fantasy #costume 🧶🪡 #flower #dress #sewing

Experimental DIY lapidary or weird witch stuff? #lapidary #rockhound #weirdwitchstuff 🧶 🪨💎⛏️🧙‍♀️

.Blood Moon. I released the photo version of this painting a little ways back, so check back in my feed to find it. ❤️ I miss doing photo paintings. I haven’t done as many in recent years. 🧜‍♀️ #photopainting #digitalpainting #art #pdxart #pdxartist #mermaid #fantasy #fantasyart #darkfantasy #moon