Very nice stuff Sasha!  All of us East Coasters are very jealous of the incredible environments you have to collect out there.  We have a lot of great stuff over here too, but we have to look SOOOO much harder for it.  I'm not sure how much you know about cleaning specimens, but you could improve the looks of those crystals by 200%!  First, put all of them in a shallow tub or tray {preferably not metal) and fill with water enough to cover them all.  Then add a cup of bleach and let soak for a couple days. The bleach will remove any organic materials, such as the green algae or moss.  Then drain off the bleach solution and rinse them.  Now you need a common product sold at many grocery and hardware stores called Super Iron Out.  It cost around 4 bucks for a bottle and comes as a white powder.  Replace all the specimens in the tub, but this time use hot tap water to cover them.  Then, in a separate glass, mix about 3 teaspoons of iron out with hot tap water.  The fumes are not terribly dangerous, but you don't want to inhale them any more than necessary.  Add this to the tub and let soak for a day or two.  then remove and rinse the specimens.  You will not believe the difference it will make, they will be clean and shiny, with no iron staining.  It seems like a lot os work at first, but it's pretty easy and once you get used to it, you will be a pro at cleaning all your specimens.  Of course not everything needs bleach or iron out, but quartz in particular usually greatly benefits from it.  Keep up the good work.  If you ever get over to the Carolinas, we'll be glad to take you out digging somewhere.

I'll second Laurie on the envy for wide open vistas.  When people from the west come east, they say "Wow, look at all the trees!"  When people from the east go west, they say "Wow, look: no trees!"

The east has some great vistas too, but when you're walking around in the field most of the time there's a curtain of trees between you and the horizon.  In my 20s I lived in semi-arid southwestern Oklahoma where there are miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.  Since then I've been in the well-watered midwest and east, so lately I'm getting a longing for long horizons. 

You're rocking and rolling now, Sasha.
And what a huge backyard to play in! Makes me kindof envious.
I had a feeling your youngest was the rockhound. Great stuff!