Gem and Mineral Show

This past Saturday Rowan and I were able to hitch a ride with a friend to go to a Gem/Mineral warehouse. They had so many boxes of beautiful samples, I could have been happy to peruse their wares for days. As it was, we spent the better part of 3 hours looking around. I particularly enjoyed the large minerals that show their crystal structure macroscopically and the polished spheres. I really wanted to get one of everything, but I settled on just two things. An amethyst sphere and a pyrite cube (pictures following this post). Anyone that knows me, knows I love symmetry and geometric patterns, and if you didn't know that, well, you do now :) They had many spectacular minerals, but currently I couldn't afford anything more than these two small specimens.