Took a jaunt down to Fly Gap Road this weekend, just east of Mason. This is a ranch road running south from Highway 71, though some ranch land — there are fenced fields on both sides, with plenty of cows who’ll come over to see what you’re doing, but the road itself is public.
The sides of the road are littered with large chunks of rose quartz and smoky quartz. Nothing valuable, unless you’re the kind of person who simply likes to collect and polish large chunks of rose quartz and smoky quartz. Which I am.
Oh, and the roadside is also lined with millions of beautifully diverse colored flowers. There were two other groups of people creeping up the road while I was; they were collecting photographs of the flowers while I collected rocks.
I stopped at Baby Head Cemetery on the way back, not far from Llano. Interesting place. The name is rather literal, and dates back to fighting in the 1800s between pioneers and Native Americans. What I particularly like here is that there’s a grave for John Conner, which means The War Against the Machines clearly was far more far-past-reaching than we realized before! I feel more research on this topic would be time well spent.