I cooked dinner this evening for some of my favorite women folk, and Jeanette, a long-time family friend, brought over some geodes (along with a chisel and a mallet) that she found on an excursion through some fields and creek beds in Iowa for a little pre-dinner excitement. I’ll surely be breaking out my camera magnifying lens attachment in some better light over the weekend for some close-up crystallization. Read more about geodes on Wikipedia.