The first thing I must do is to apologize to Auden Lloyd (Northville, MI), and Carrie and Dan Wiersma (Appleton, WI), and Michael (no last name or home town was given). Auden visited the museum on August 3rd; Carrie and Dan on August 28th, and Michael on September 11th. I used my iPad to take photos of their agates. Carrie and Dan had a four-pounder! Two days ago as I was starting to work on this web page update, my iPad screen went black as I was using it. I have spent hours following instructions and advice from several sources. It appears the motherboard quit functioning on the iPad. I was hoping the photos were sent to iCloud, but I can not seem to find them. I may have had the automatic upload turned off. Yesterday I drove to Marquette to buy a new iPad. I turned the automatic upload function at this time. I deeply apologize that I cannot share pictures of these agates. If you read this and would like to send me photos, I will have them added to this web page update. Please send them to
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In addition, I must apologize to the readers for not taking many photos of agates this summer. It was VERY busy and on most days, I did not have time. It was all I could do to do what I had to do to take care of customers’ needs.
On July 2nd, Ken Myles came into the Gitche Gumee to show me a fantastic candy stripper that also exhibits shadow banding. What is funny is that a guy was in the museum the day before who was shown the agate on the beach. Then I got to see it, too!
Katrina Fryfogle, from Flushing, MI visited the museum on July 31st. She found a great shadow agate that exhibited the shadow even though the agate was only beach polished. In many cases, you cannot see the shadow until the agate surface has been polished because you need good optics for the shadow phenomenon to show.
