Don Ray<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Minerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minerals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rocks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Geodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geodes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Quartz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quartz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Iowa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iowa</span></a></p><p>Happy <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MineralMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MineralMonday</span></a>! (Not sure if that’s a thing😀). </p><p>Behold a Keokuk Geode collected by me in the sunny days of my youth!</p><p>We used to ride our bikes across the Mississippi River bridge to a small stream on the Illinois side. The geodes were in the stream and in the exposed dirt of the stream bank.</p>