Searching for Sand Rubies

After the Tucson summer rains would fill the arroyos around our house when I was young and the water would disappear as quickly as it came, I would walk along the damp, smooth sand searching for sand rubies. I would collect the small, dark red stones in a white handkerchief and bring them home to show my mother. I would unfold the cloth and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the rubies glistening and dancing against the white material like so many red birds.

A. H. SMITH

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Washington, D.C.

1979 Washington, D.C. E. Eckholm

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Jones Beach

1956

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

School Portrait

1954 St. James, New York

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Studio (Exterior)

2004 Phoenix

2004

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My Mother

Pittsburgh

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My Father and I

1949 Bradford Woods, Pennsylvania

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

My Parents at the Stork Club

New York City

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ATO (The Beginning and the End)

1967 Tucson Rory McCarthy

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Phoenix 1976 David Barr

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Halloween

St. James Circa 1956

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Monday, August 22, 2011

Prince

St. James, NY, circa 1953

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Stars

Salt River Day School, 1976, David Barr

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Olds Rocket 88

Tucson, Circa 1971, Mike Paulson

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Tucson, 1972

Tucson, 1972, Margo Burwell

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