My Life in Enoch

[1dave]

We moved here in 2000, and I love it! I look out east of our home - an areal view of the Western Edge of The Colorado Plateau.



A Wider View:


There are several thick layers of colorful agate up there, Erosion has sent chunks tumbling down even to my yard!

Between me and Cedar City is Fiddler's Canyon, famed for it's Blue Agate. zarguy lives in that area.


Then the mountain view beyond Cedar City


Those rock layers take me back through time!


The Mouth of Cedar Canyon:


The Geology of the area:

A wonderful place for Rock Hounds!

[rockjunquie]

Nice! Lucky you.

[drocknut]

Agate in your back yard, very cool.

[realrockhound]

Those are all photos from Dave’s front window, for the unknowing. King of the mountain top.

[RWA3006]

Nov 8, 2024 18:17:42 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

Those are all photos from Dave’s front window, for the unknowing. King of the mountain top.

Yep, I've stood there looking up on the hill while having pleasant conversation with Dave and his family. It's a great place with a wonderful community of solid, good Americans.

Just up the road a ways lives Lynn, zarguy another valuable RTH member who I've had the pleasure of meeting.

[orrum]

You have a great place Dave

[quartzilla]

Love Dave’s posts like this❤️

[Rockoonz]

Looks like you live in a great place Dave, we intended to drive north through Utah this June but our departure day was delayed.
I think the original route had us overnighting somewhere near Cedar City, it's in one of the itinerary notebooks for future reference.

[1dave]

Lynn Dalton

You might wonder why Lynn Dalton is known as zarguy. it is because he invented the card game of Zar!







playzar.com/

You've probably played one of Zar's ancestors

Zar evolved from folk games like Crazy Eights, Slam Your Neighbor, Taki (Israel), Mau Mau (Germany) & others. Many Zar players recognize its roots in games they've played since they were young. Over time the rules have evolved to make the game move faster & have more twists. Zar is a good balance of luck & strategy. It certainly isn't deep like chess, but you do have more fun & win more hands when you think through your choices.

I first started playing Zar in 1976 with homemade cards that were made with a photocopy of the artwork which was hand-colored with felt-tipped pens and then sandwiched between a piece of plastic & adhesive plastic (Contact paper in the US). It took about 6 hours to make a deck. I gave many friends photo copies of the art & instructions for making cards. Over 30 decks were made this way. One guy even made cards on a plotter in the early 80s.

The artwork has evolved from a bunch of unrelated symbols to the current creatures & galactic symbols. There have been about 8 stages in the evolution of the card designs. They're a lot more fun to look at than colored numbers & boxes. You may have noticed that the Zar logo reads the same upside-down. Try it! Flip your monitor over or stand on your head!