Have you ever?

Been interested in rocks? No? Yes? Maybe?

Perhaps you are enchanted (yes I am a girl and I use words like "enchanted") by diamonds, rubies, emeralds and the like. From their polished and cut surfaces light bounces, glitters and entices one to fall in love. People have killed to own certain jewels, lost fortunes and died scrabbling through mountains after elusive gems. But if you were to find one just laying on the ground out in the no-where, it wouldn't necessarily jump out at you as a precious stone. Most likely it would just look like....a rock...

Encased in the earth there are many beautiful things but it takes an eye, a skill and knowledge to release the beauty which lies hidden. And not all beautiful things come in small packages to be strung around a neck or clasped on an arm. Some of the most painfully lovely and pulchritudinous earth treasures come in packages of tons instead of carets.

If you are interested in seeing a sample of what the earth has to offer in the way of beauty, stop in and look at the granite counter tops. It just might astonish you to see what is buried right here in Boundary County, we have on display a island created out a local stone, it is creamy white swirled with black and grays. Also there is a Washington state green granite that is breathtaking! And if you are interested in something edgy check out that vanity in the picture above. It comes right out of the ground like that and is imported from Italy, it isn't epoxied together, even if it looks like it might be.