Indeed, there is purple in the scepter.  In a white background the purple is much more noticeable.  Too bad we only had such a small window to work that area.   

Yes! No, I didn't see you had posted these last pics.
Great pics and, now that I see what you were talking about today,
I'm glad to see you were looking at this "druzy" too.
You have to look at it with magnification to appreciate all the different crystal growths/habits.
I have been looking at it, too. It's almost too complex to call druzy.
I brought a really nice piece and put it out at Pittsboro to see if anyone would notice it
and ended up giving it to one of the longtime local shop owners as a present.
I've still got some nice big pieces of the "unakite" with the druzy running thru them.
Did you soak those pieces in IO?
3rd pic down, can you make out a form to the gold/brown area under the crystals?
Oh yeah, and I love the wispy white smoke in the larger crystals on the first cluster. Opalescent.
Anyway, yes, I think this BG Druzy is pretty awesome stuff, too!
Thanks for the pics.

I have volunteered to fill a couple of the display cases at the
Tar Heel show at the fairgrounds this weekend and I decided
to do one case of nothing but Bowling Green,
so I've been pulling out and going thru whatever I can find.

We've been hunting this site for 7 years now and I've got stuff
boxed up and stuck away here, there and everywhere.
I didn't come across any of the fine drusy coated crystal forms Scott pictured above, but I may one day.
So for the display, we have somethings old and somethings new.
Here is a 1 inch scepter I haven't seen in a long time, that looks
very much like the one of Scott's pictured above.

First pic is of a crystal dug last September and recorded earlier in this thread.
The next few are of clusters I haven't seen in a long time.

Cleaning up some piles of rocks in the yard I came across this
classic fissure filled piece of Bowling Green granite, and since
it is such a nice example of the rock I thought I'd post a few pics, for old times sake.
Before they named this development we were calling it Austin Creek, after the creek running thru it,
but when they chose Bowling Green as the name I could think of nothing more suitable
and had no problem adopting it.
There is a good portion of the altered epidotized old Raleigh Belt granite,
we basically have to call Unakite, on this piece.
When the Rolesville Granite pluton grew into the older Raleigh Belt granite it baked it, turned it green,
and shot these fissures that crystallized all thru it.

(I know you've heard all this before. And this piece isn't worth writing a paper on. )
This piece is about 4 inches long. Here's a pic of Side A and a close-up of the little crystal pocket in the fissure.

Well,yes, 2022 brought the addition of a new phase to the old Bowling Green development that got all our hearts a flutter and our sight colored by awaiting amethyst spectacles!
But BG2 is on the other side of the creek and not the land of Amethyst Abundance we were dreaming of. But it still brought back many fond memories of the glory days of hunting Bowling Green, possibly the best Amethyst locality ever found in Wake County.

As it sometimes happens, the first good cluster was the best of the bunch. But Bowling Green is a very unique occurrence with it's own habits to study and many interesting specimens were found.
Here are a couple of pictures of cluster #1.
Last picture is a row of scepters on etched clusters.

Dang, those finds were so beautiful. Don't know what to say about the 'progress' made to destroy that area except to quote Ed Abbey, "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell...."