I'm sure we will have plenty of warm days before Autumn sets in later this month but it has been very cool here lately. I was thinking back on everything I did this summer and one of the highlights was going to Mica Mountain in June. The Husby used to go bird hunting there as a kid and one time not long after we were married he took me there. I was rather impressed with how much mica was lying around on the ground. So I got this idea last year that we should go up there and take a look around again. We didn't get around to it until this year, and then once we got up on the mountain we couldn't find the site of the old mica mine. We took several wrong turns but finally found it. It looks almost nothing like what I remember. Of course, more than 25 years have gone by since I was there last and a lot of trees had grown up around the small clearing where the trucks used to load.
However, there is still a lot of mica on the ground and I had a lot of fun gathering together a bucket of it. I don't know for sure what I'm going to do with it. There is a lot of dirt sandwiched between the sheets of mica and I'm not really sure how to clean it. But it's still cool.
