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http://attawaygems.com/NMFG
The New Mexico Faceters Guild is a club based in Albuquerque dedicated to bringing together enthusiasts of gemstone faceting, meeting bimonthly at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. The site includes selected newsletter articles and a gemstone education series by gemologist Edna Anthony, making it a useful resource for both beginners and experienced faceters.
http://almostafternoon.com/blog
Jenikya's Blog is a richly illustrated personal travel and lifestyle journal documenting day trips, street art discoveries, food markets, and cultural landmarks primarily across London and Bristol. Posts cover everything from pancakes at Greenwich Market to Bristol's Upfest street art festival, making it a charming guide to off-the-beaten-path urban experiences in the UK.
https://glenrosefarm.blogspot.com/
Written by a lawyer, sheep farmer, and Orthodox Christian in the Virginia hill country, this reflective blog blends farm life observations with faith, philosophy, and rural living. Posts cover everything from sheep husbandry to Orthodox Church traditions, offering a glimpse into a contemplative life on a hillside farm.
https://birdwatching.zone/
A personal birding journal tracking recent sightings, lifers, and field trips across Arizona locations like Sweetwater Wetlands and the Anza Trail, with species entries ranging from Cinnamon Teal to American Woodcock. The site features a growing species list, photo gallery, and blog posts about birding adventures, making it a charming record of one enthusiast's time in the field.
http://lincolncentresource.com/
The Lincoln Cent Resource is a comprehensive reference dedicated to Lincoln penny varieties, covering doubled dies, repunched mintmarks, over mintmarks, wide and close AMs, and key dates for serious coin collectors. It includes checklists, grading guides, featured varieties, error coins, and a forum where collectors can discuss and identify their finds.
http://expedition360.com/
Expedition 360 documents Jason Lewis and his international team's historic human-powered circumnavigation of the globe, covering over 45,000 miles by bicycle, kayak, rowing, skating, and a pedal-powered boat between 1994 and 2007. The site chronicles one of the last great firsts in exploration while also highlighting the team's climate advocacy and UNESCO educational partnerships focused on environmental stewardship.
https://anabeth-ivil.tripod.com/
Harriet's personal homepage centers on her beloved garden, featuring photos of shade gardens, water gardens, a backyard pond, and the birds that visit them across multiple dedicated pages. Family life, camping, fishing at Kentucky Lake, and milestone celebrations like a golden anniversary round out this warm slice of early 2000s web life from Paducah, Kentucky.
http://thegardeners-directory.co.uk/
The Gardeners Directory is a comprehensive UK-based links directory covering over 50 gardening categories, from bonsai and orchids to allotments, water features, and garden design. Visitors can browse curated links to nurseries, seed suppliers, gardening clubs, plant databases, and a gardening shopping mall all in one place.
https://topoquest.com/
TopoQuest, created by Ryan Niemi, is a free online viewer and download hub for USGS topographic maps covering the entire United States at multiple scales, plus Canadian topo maps and 1-meter satellite imagery. Hikers, campers, anglers, prospectors, and GIS enthusiasts will find it an invaluable replacement for the old TopoZone, offering free DRG GeoTIFF downloads and a searchable place-name database.
Trinity Mineral Co.
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http://trinityminerals.com/index.htm
Trinity Mineral Co. was the pioneering online mineral shop of John Veevaert, one of the earliest sellers to use the internet for mineral collecting, active since 1996. Now preserved as a historical archive by his family and colleagues, the site showcases his legacy in rare minerals, Benitoite, Tsumeb specimens, and the broader world of mineral collecting.