20 Most Beautiful Minerals And Stones in the World

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49. J.E.A.L.O.U.S.!!!!!

Sounds scrumptious!

I'd have grabbed it, too, at that price! Or, certainly, I'd have wanted to!

I still remember the first fossil I ever fell in love with. I think I was four years old. We'd moved into a new house and up the back of the back yard, where the property line ended at the top of a hill were these very rough-hewn stone steps. In one of the steps near the top was one step that had this STRIKING fossil in it. It looked like a butt. I swear! It looked like some elf or fairy or sprite lived inside the rock but had stuck his butt up through the top of the rock, so the butt cheeks stuck out! Two nearly perfect little round attached orbs - side-by-side in one configuration. I have NO idea what it was. No clue what creature caused it. I do remember finding teeny tiny shells in the dirt, too. That might suggest that the area might have been underwater long, long ago. We moved from there when I was just a few years older so all I have of it are early childhood memories. But I clearly remember rubbing my finger around and around over the two "butt cheeks," circling their shape, tracing up to the highest points of the two hemispheres, and spiraling back around and down to where the "cheeks" fused into the flat surface of the rest of the rock. I haven't the faintest idea what it might have been. I've never seen anything like it before or since. Had to be about three inches by two inches in size. And I SWEAR - it looked like some itty bitty person's butt sticking up through the rock! How can one ever forget that?

My grandmother had three fossilized trilobites on a side table with other gewgaws on display in her living room. I was transfixed. Played with them every time I went over there to visit. Just couldn't stop gazing at them and tracing the lines on them. Always hoped, in vain, that she might give me one (or at least let me co-mother it)!