I live on the Grand Lake O' The Cherokees. It is a beautiful place to live but when the leaves fall and the color is gone it is hard to find pictures worth taking. However, on my drive Sunday I passed this place that is less than a mile from my home. It is a the rock quarry. Trucks loaded with crushed rock move in an out of the location every week day. We buy the rock from them to fill our drive way and for other projects. Often we hear explosions from there that feel like we are having an earthquake. Our yard and field might look green and grassy but underneath there it nothing but rock. It is good to know this mountain of minerals serves a purpose.
A quarry is a place where rocks, sand, or minerals are extracted from the surface of the Earth. A quarry is a type of mine called an open-pit mine, because it is open to the Earth's surface. ... The most common purpose of quarries is to extract stone for building materials. Quarries have been used for thousands of years. They serve a functional beauty in our area as a source of income for many workers.
Sure you must be use to the mini earthquakes by now but I bet for the newbie, they are startling. We don't have solid rock here but tons of stones. After Florida sand, clay and stones were an education.
ReplyDeleteThey will always startle me even after 15 years and I go ahead and check online to see if we've had an earthquake. This is an area anyway for a lot of earthquakes.
DeleteI firmly believe that there is always beauty for those who keep their eyes, heart and mind open to receive it.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right. Despite the pandemic these trucks keep on rolling.
DeleteThat would be alarming. We jump every time we hear a transformer blow, even if it is during a storm and we know it will be happening sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteThere is beauty everywhere for those willing to look.
Yes I do jump a lot with the sudden sounds.
DeleteI remember a quarry from my childhood, near the town where we lived, it wasn't fenced off so most of the boys in town would play there, especially in winter when the piles were sludgy with wet mud and they could slide down them into the creek formed by the collected rain.
ReplyDeleteIt would be easy to get on this quarry but I have never seen children at play there. It would be a dangerous place to go.
DeleteAs a child, I used to fish in an open pit quarry in PA. Of course, it was incredibly dangerous, but at that time nobody really thought about it. I think we can find beauty anywhere if we truly are open to it.
ReplyDeleteMy sister and her husband have an open pit quarry on their property and hes got a little cabin back there and a boat and fishes in there.
DeleteIf ever you have a chance to visit the UK you will be astonished at the job they have done restoring disused quarries as nature reserves. The ones that I visited were outstanding examples of what can be done when businesses are not allowed to evade remediation.
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