Happy New Year wishes to everyone!
In December I moved house from Cambridge to Whanganui. Everything was shifted by Christmas, and most of the unpacking has now been done.
However, the shed I will use for tumble polishing is still in the process of preparation.
Early in January, after the moving and unpacking, I quickly put together a calendar for 2020, using Diamond Photo online. For each month, the Calendar has a set of photos, just slightly smaller than an A4 page, with another A4 size page below it containing the month’s dates. The main internationally-recognised holidays are noted, along with some of the main New Zealand ones.
I was very pleased with the quality of the finished product.
If you want to buy one for yourself, email me at john.tumblestone@gmail.com. It will cost you $25 (postage included, in New Zealand).
The following are the sets of photos for each month in the Calendar – these are all photos I took in 2019, most but not all of which appeared on TumbleStone blog last year:
January – Riverton scenes
February – Close-ups of Gemstone Beach stones
March – Fossil worm casts in rocks at Tihaka Beach, near Riverton
April – Hydrogrossular garnets
May – Gemstone Beach scenes
June – Fossil worm cast stones
July – Larger stones found on Gemstone Beach and the beach near McCracken’s Rest
August – Polished stones from Gemstone Beach
September – Henderson Bay scenes, Riverton
October – Polished stones, collected by my sister Helen on Gemstone Beach
November – Close-ups of fossil worm cast traces
December – Polished stones, collected by Sam, my sister’s grandson, on Gemstone Beach.
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