Verda Fletcher, a retired schoolteacher and long-time customer, says her aim is to locate as many California minerals as she can, photograph them in thin section, and publish the images in a large-format picturebook. In March of 2005 she exhibited examples of her work at a show entitled "A Vision in Polarized Light" at the Clark Historical Museum in Eureka, California. The scanned image of quartz and mica below (X-polars w/gypsum plate) is a portion of the postcard announcement of the show; a full version of this image also appeared in The March 23, 2005 edition of the Eureka Reporter.