Crazy Lace Agate is also known as Mexican Agate because it originates in Chihuahua in Northern Mexico. It is a form of banded chalcedony. Crazy Lace Agate is known for its brilliant coloration, wild banding, complex patterns and wide variation. The colors are due to the infusion of impurities of iron and aluminum.
Crazy Lace Agate is very often used in jewelry in the form of cabochons which are incorporated into pendants, buckles, earrings and bracelets and sometimes even into carved objects.
I resolved to impound the waters of my spring in the ravine and keep fish at last—without salt—to my heart’s content. Yet I remembered certain restraining precepts: first, that law of art which condemns incongruity—requires everything to be in keeping with its natural surroundings—and which therefore, for one thing, makes an American garden the best possible sort of garden to have in America; second,[Pg 16] that twin art law, against inutility, which demands that everything in an artistic scheme serve the use it pretends to serve; third, a precept of Colonel Waring’s: “Don’t fool with running water if you haven’t money to fool away”; and, fourth, that best of all gardening rules—look before you leap.
However, on second thought, and tenth, and twentieth, one thought a day for twenty days, I found that if water was to be impounded anywhere on my acre here was the strategic point. Down this ravine, as I have said, was the lawn’s one good glimpse of the river, and a kindred gleam intervening would tend, in effect, to draw those farther waters in under the trees and into the picture.
