Tanya Kovaleski and I have just opened our "Matters of Gravity" exhibit at the Maloof Foundation in Rancho Cucamonga. As a reward to ourselves after installing a majority of the work, we buzzed east for a quick one-day trip to Quartzite. The Gem Show is in January (which I missed because of COVID). But we found a lot of unusual stones at T-Rocks (where Frances McDormand briefly works in "Nomadland"). They have acres of stone - often wonders I have never seen before that send me off in a whole new direction.
The problem with shopping in late April is that it is VERY VERY HOT. So T-Rocks provide these ridiculously tiny umbrellas to protect a small part of one's cranium from heatstroke!