How's the weather been the past few weeks? Was it as dry as further south? IME they need a good couple of weeks of moisture to wake up after a prolonged dry spell.
Be sure to post pics when you strike gold.
βThere is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force'. The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call the Great Work."
β Jacques Bergier, quoting Fulcanelli