This was her heaven, the Crystal Valley, the Northstar Valley, and all the secret places tucked away in the arms of the Northstar Mountains. She’d be at peace here even with no one else around. But she wasn’t alone. The spirited voices of her son and his girlfriend and Ben and his niece danced around her, woven with the elements of the day and the landscape to create absolute perfection. Why would she want to be anywhere else right now? Or with anyone else?
June went back to digging. She dumped a shovel-full of dirt into her screen and shook it to separate the loose dirt from the crystals. Poking through the pebbles of granite, she plucked out a handful of clear quartz, including one nearly as thick and long as her pinky. All in all, this seemed to be a good dig site, she mused as she add
