Getting to Know Our Neighbors

What better place to start than with our next door neighbors (and landlords) Jim and Sue Franklin of Davis Mountains Rock Shop.  Located on picturesque State Street in Fort Davis with Sleeping Lion Mountain as a backdrop, this shop is a gem in its own right. Once you pull yourself past the front porch with its fascinating assortment of Metal Art and outdoor decorations (everything from cactus to full size aliens,  from porcupines to dinosaurs; and whimsical objects that challenge the imagination) and enter the light and airy shop, there are delights in every direction.

The store, opened in July of 2019, is filled with everything rock, from rough to tumbled and polished, enthralling gemstones and weirdly beautiful fossils. There is jewelry, minerals pottery, fine art and all sorts of items fashioned from and with gem material and stone. 

Sue creates amazing artwork, creating plaques, often with a cedar background, of meticulously cut stone. Jim does cabbing, copper and custom work. His cabs are well known to silversmiths all across the Southwest.

Besides Sue’s and Jim’s own work, the shop hosts the work of seven other local artisans.