Mineral Art and ISS Space Walk

I have been working hard for the past few weeks on various custom mineral art orders.  For today's blog posting I decided to take a few photos....

An agate lamp showing all four sides of the shade:

A 24x12 inch agate window:

Two suncatchers...

Some of the twelve kitchen cabinet agate panels...

Earlier today the astronauts on the International Space Station took the first of at least two space walks to repair the pump for a cooling system.  The ISS has two of these cooling systems that are absolutely essential.  If the other cooling system were to fail, they would have to abandon the space station.  Today they removed the pump and used the robotic arm to move it out of the way.  In the next few days, they will install a new pump.  One of the two astronauts on the space walk is attached to the end of the robotic arm.

The earth is shown in the photo below...