2019 Tucson Gem Shows

Again, I was a little too excited at the fact that I was there and saw enormous gems, and I hence did not take a lot of photos at the show, but here we go!

A couple of notes, during the period of this show, it’s like entire Tucson became the show ground, many traders booked hotels to use the hotel rooms for exhibiting their rocks and stones.

Or exuberant dealers / sellers have sat their allocated booth in the huge panelized houses, which will take you hours and days to stroll through till the end.

I was very lucky to be there with the two ladies! The lady on the left on the first photo, named Naoko Fujinami, is my master of crystals and she is the first disciple of JaneAnn Dow, the crystal reader & healer. And since Naoko has friend networks with miners and dealers, I also have got a opportunity to meet / greet and talk with a few of them out of her friends.

I hope these photos share the joy how I was excited at being surrounded by rocks at the show. 🙂

Naoko, Gary, me. Gary mines, polishes, and trades the minerals called Euphoralite

Two Euphoralite mineral deposits. The left is complex of blue tourmaline and mica. The right contains high in lithium.

Saiko, aka ‘the wise-woman of aroma’ aroma specialist, on the left. Gary Fleck, and me. Gary is an old friend of Naoko and he has been doing one stop shop of rocks. He has love to the rocks and his polished crystals and minerals are spectacular.

Just part of his huge lineups. I am so glad to meet to him, which was my long standing hope since I first got his handled crystals two years ago.

Beautiful bear chunk of quartz and more

They look like but are not wire woods

Gigantic smokey quartz

At the counter of the trader with Larimer

Petrified Woods taking sunlight at the sunset.

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Arizona beauty

Aerial views of Arizona geography I watched on the fright from Houston to Tucson.

Well, I do not have sufficient / enough vocabulary to describe how beautiful they are, so I will skip to try in here. 😉

They just froze me having my face stuck on the window to look the amazing world spread underneath..

And this is my contribution to this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge #32: Shadows hosted by Tina Schell.

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My short trip to the US

I was on 5 days trip to Tucson, Arizona. There is a month long 2019 Tucson Gem Show , the biggest gem show in the world, happening in there, and I caught up with a lady who enlightened me the delight of quartz, minerals and fossils, and the other lady who we called her ‘wise woman’ of aroma oils for therapy. 🙂

I first flew to Houston and then flew to Tucson. 15 and half hours of flight to Houston was plenty time to do watching movies and reading a book (and of course catching up some sleep!).

The itinerary of this trip was ultra short (at least for me), I spent almost 24 hours one way including layover time, and I stayed just 2 and half days in Tucson and flew back to Sydney with almost same lengthy time for way back. It certainly may look like crazy or waste of money.

However, to me, it was worth to do as it was really special, awesome, concentrated, intense, great time I had in taking a look all day long at rocks, crystals and fossils gathered from the world. 🙂

I was a bit too excited during the trip and did not take a lot of photos honestly.. still I would like to share some of which I caught, in some posts..

My first experience with UA was not bad. 🙂

Hello, George Bush International Airport.

A bit more photos will be following… 🙂

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A piece of work of the day 28

An another abstract work..

This was where I came from.

This was where we all came from.

This is where I am back when death comes to me.

This is where we are all back when death come to us.

So let’s not worry about our life, but just listen and follow your gut what it wants.

Because we are blessed and we deserve taking supports.

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A piece of work of the day 27

It’s not my usual kind of stuff I go in drawing, but this is the way to express my fullest of love to my best, who soon faces the farewell to her father for his next journey…

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A piece of work of the day 26

So this is another piece of work for which I had drawn this for the same subject.

Again, I struggled with drawing hand. I would have drawn it visible but in translucent, but all the combinations of the figure, the lines, the choice of the colors, hue, shade…made it a little too invisible or hard to see.

Well anyway, this was my best I tried for the work, and it will be great if this leaves something in you.

Everyone has beautiful soul in yourselves, but many of us got lost to keep it shined in the busy and complicated day to day life. Our modern life makes us easy to build worries and pressures, and get lost ourselves by fatigues.

With my sincere hope of my friend’s recovery from depression…

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One Word Sunday: Lines

These are belated my contribution to this week’s One Word Sunday, hosted by TRAVEL WITH INTENT.

The both are caught Sydney Harbour Bridge and Cahill Expressway leading from Sydney city toward north shore. I have been in Sydney over ten years and I never get bored of looking at the architecture, it is so elegant and admirable suspension bridge.

Version 2

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