Gems of Tucson

“We created a monster.”
— There are disappointingly few pictures of the jewels mentioned in this description of the “Somewhere In the Rainbow” gem collection, which also has “unusual, even mysterious, circumstances surrounding its ownership,” but fortunately there’s a website and a Facebook page with more. Plus here’s more information about alexandrite, here are pictures of tourmaline, and here’s something potentially similar to what apparently brought one young Japanese man to tears.