sunstone
catdynamics | March 11, 2013Inspired by Tim Hamilton's facebook post I played a bit with my old bit of silfurberg this weekend
In particular, I was curious to test whether there was some plausibility to birefringent calcite being the "sunstone" of the Saga's.
This evening, about an hour before sunset, we had nice thick rain clouds moving from Ohio, so, as I had promised the Astronomers fb group, I popped out to check what I could see.
After a short time playing with rotation, looking with peripheral vision and doing some slow scans, I gave the biggest piece to my daughter (who I am reasonably sure has not read this…