Harvest Festival

[cjsmith]

Today Rob and I went to the San Jose "Harvest Festival" arts & crafts show. (I'd link to its page here, but its QuickTime plugins keep doing illegal stuff and I get "strongly advised" to restart my browser. Grump.)

I was very, very good and did NOT BUY any opals. Not one. I did buy food, a gift for a friend, more food, a thing that miiiiight help make my bras fit, and a pair of earrings.

But one opal I saw and didn't buy is the thing I'm going to remember for years. Ahhh, if I were a millionaire... or if I didn't hope to go back to school. This opal was stunning. I wish I had the words to describe it; I wish I had a photo. I wish I had some way to show it to all of you. I loved it so much that what I most want to do is show it to everybody, so they can all see its beauty too.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oooooo! That sounds like way too much fun.

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Especially the fun we could have being crabby and bitchy and enjoying every minute of the agony we would put ourselves through.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

And I do get sooo crabby and bitchy when I'm uncomfortable, too. Heh. You know me like an old friend. :-)

That is an excellent icon for this very concept, by the way!

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Or this icon.

But the thing aabout doing something like that is we know in advance how uncomfortable it will be, but we hope the 'reward' (possibly a pretty gemstone we polled from the earth by ourselves) will be worth all of the agony.