welcome to the club!

A very nice crystal with transitional habit -- a cross between tessin and normal habit.  If you look at your crystal at the point where it juts inward like a pagoda and then imagine hundreds of these "steps" happening at a much smaller scale, then you have a tessin.   

One of the other interesting things Pahound has found in the creek of late is a tooth.
I guessed it was probably a cow or horse but he looked it up
and discovered it was probably a bison.
Well, I haven't seen one of them around here in a looooong time.
Then he finds a pelvis and another bone in the same area and we came across those.
Below are a couple pics of the bones with Side A and B of the one on the left. The one on right is the pelvis.
And if you go to this site on Bison Osteology,
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~lctodd/bison.htm

and look at the pelvis area of the skeleton shown,
you will see that it looks like these two bones belong together
and at one time were attached.

Chairs in trees?? Now that's the funniest thing I've seen all day.  I might make a trip just to see that. 

Didn't have time to do much but take another walk in the creek this weekend.
It was a beautiful Sunday morning.
Besides for the crystals and agate, now we've got bones to look for!

Here's a pic of John explaining to Ryan the difference between
agate, jasper, and chert.

We think the bison bones have come to rest against a natural d**e crossing the creek.
How old these bones are and whether they are all bison is yet to be seen.
There are a lot of possibilities at this point and it is fun to consider and investigate all of them.
Below are some pics of the jaw bone and some of the bones we found today.

I'm glad to see you guys checking those creeks.  I haven't had the chance to get out since all my possessions are locked away in pods right now.  Living at the mother-in-laws right now.  Hopefully, I'll be able to move in at the end of the week.  I'm starting to get rockhounding withdrawal pains at this point.   

Scott