Do You Know Where Your Stones Come From?

As many of you may already know I don't often use stones. 

I do mount bits of things in my work but stones are rare, and if I do use them they have to be well how should I say.. a bit out of the ordinary!

Of course it would be nice if I had a "before" shot, but I don't...  

Ones of the times I was in the village of Mineral de Pozos I picked up this sandstone piece that had a nice bit of orangish quartz drooozy on it.  

It sat in my studio for a long time 

and 

today, as I was preparing stuff for the 2-week residency program at Haystack in Maine this summer,

it spoke to me.  

So I called my friend Kim and he was nice enough to let me use his equipment to cut it up and make it into a few nice little shapes.  

Many might not like it as a stone or say that it has very little value because most of the tops of the little crystals are broke off, 

but it's something special to me because I know where it came from.  

I wonder if some one I know might call these stones Wabi-Sabi?  

And so these nice bits will get packed away for my trip to Maine, 

perhaps something very cool will come from them during my time there!!

Jesse