the Tucson Show. So much beauty and artistry, so many great memories.

After spending anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months in Quartzite, we'd then go straight to Tucson. It was the greatest fun!

It's been a couple of decades since I've been to either show. I miss those days.

We have never been going through Tucson at the right time.

He is a geologist and he would be in hog heaven for sure. I of course would have to restrain him from buying out the store

one of the mines my BIL had an interest in ( a gold and silver mine ) near tombstone had a collection of wulfenite crystals.



I went 300 feet underground and crawled on my hands and knees through some very nasty tight passages... and got quite a few samples.

Took them to the gem show and tried to sell them... i think I got $120 for the lot. Sad. Wulfenite is fairly rare. Maybe if I had registered and bought a booth there... but I really only had the wulfenite and maybe only a dozen decent crystals

Oh well, the show is fun to go to if you like rocks

Unusual rocks on the trail, go into my backpack and in my backyard. I doubt that any of them are worth more than a penny but the iron or copper color are beautiful.

One time, I picked up a large rock from a stream bed. Topo map said I was gonna carry it up 220 ft back to the parking lot. Club members bet I would abandon it before we got to the top of the valley. The iron color adds to the "rock garden."