There is still more to show from the Permian Basin Oil Museum. There is another whole wing that is a mineral gallery. It is the Edward Judson Memorial Mineral Collection. The collection was magnificent. The different minerals took up a very large room. Every mineral was at least a foot wide and a foot across for the small ones. Many specimens were even larger. The lumpy specimen in the picture is selenite but called gypsum rose. It was found in Texas. The large crystal was a specimen from Mexico. Many of the minerals on display were from Mexico. Most of the displays were of the most beautiful examples of different minerals found around the globe. Its hard to believe that all of these marvelous specimens were owned by one man. There had to be close to a million dollars worth of mineral specimens in this gallery.
We are continuing to work hard at the campground. Jim has been doing more painting. This time the cement sidewalks and entrance areas. I've started working in the garden. The garden has huge agave plants that are trying to take over so I'm pulling out all of the babies. You almost need and axe to chop the roots out. The ground is like cement -- I don't know how plants grow in this soil. At least they are paying the local garden center to come out and put in new plantings -- they get to dig the holes for the plants. The owners of the park are also paying to put in new decorative rock -- small pieces of granite --very beautiful.
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