Nestling behind Sydney's bustling Central station, slotted neatly into the green expanse of Prince Alfred Park, is a bright blue gem of a swimming pool.
It was a sparkling blue gem, implausibly planted in the skyscraper canyon of downtown Los Angeles, as if David Hockney, heading toward Beverly Hills, had taken the wrong exit on the I-10 freeway.
It was a sparkling blue gem, implausibly planted in the skyscraper canyon of downtown Los… While watching TV one recent evening, I stumbled upon a nature program devoted to the subject of making nature programs.
The companies involved included Smart Holdings Inc., Lyric Jeans Inc., Hydrogenetics Inc., Xynergy Holdings Inc., Blast Applications Inc., Blue Gem Enterprise Inc., Mass Hysteria Entertainment Company Inc., Recycle Tech Inc. and Sunpeaks Ventures.
Mr. Morgensen recalled, with amusement and admiration, an incident in class when, in only a few minutes, his student recast the image of Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a portrait of a gorilla with a large blue gem in its ear.
THE surf was up on Lake Charlotte, a 255-acre blue gem among the farm fields west of Minneapolis, and Todd Zaugg was yelling at his son to get into the water: "All right, señor, you're on!" "Hit it, giddyup!" yelled Taylor, Mr. Zaugg's 15-year-old, who floated half-submerged, gripping a towrope.
Following the momentous occasion, it sold out almost immediately at London's Harvey Nichols department store and became known as the "Issa London Sapphire dress" because its deep blue "gem-tone" shade of silk complemented Middleton's engagement ring.
Jewelry designers are still inspired by the semiprecious blue gems, first presented by Tiffany in 1968.
Categorized as Type IIb, the blue gems, also nitrogen-free, owe their hue to traces of boron.
"It's a Yankees sign with red, white and blue gems in it," she says into his microphone.
Willow Beach Marina +1 928 767 4747, willowbeachharbor.com Trapped in a basin between California and Nevada, Lake Tahoe is one of the true blue gems of the silver state.
