I was driving all around SE Missouri today with a friend, a sculptor who knows a lot about Missouri geology. We were looking for (and finding) some awesome looking rocks.
Recently, I’ve been learning that Missouri offers lots of interest to geologists and rock hounds.

Unfortunately, the sun started setting, as it tends to do too soon every day. That’s when we came across this vista of Marble Creek in Arcadia, Missouri (Mark Twain National Forest). Apparently, I don’t even know some of the most beautiful parts of my own state.

Now back to those rocks . . .  Here are photos of four of them.  Big and stunningly beautiful and bursting with quartz.  It really helps to go rock-hounding with someone who knows where to go and what to look for.