Theme Thursday—complex

There's nothing simple about this large quartz crystal,
just one item in the American Museum of Natural History's
vast collection of gems (3,700 and almost all on display)
and minerals (90,000 and there's no way
they can show you all of those—but what's out there
is pretty amazing, as you can see).

[To see more that's complex, visit Mrsupole's meme.]

It's a jungle in here

What do you do when you move into a new office
and find you have to look at other people's
junk piled up on the other side of your cubicle?
You build yourself a wall o' greenery!  These
prolific plants have pretty much taken
 over my workspace—and I love them for it!

[Today is Theme Thursday, and the theme is "greenery."
To see more, visit Mrsupole's meme.]

On the Rialto

This fish market in Venice is one of my favorite places to take photos.  

Best time to do that is very early in the morning, before the 

market actually opens. The guy on the far right was there 

for the same reason I was—but he had a real camera.
I recently heard a nasty rumor that some folks want to 
move this market to the mainland. I wonder whose very bad
 idea that was (and I wonder how I could stop them, if ever)!

This week's Thursday Photo Challenge is "red" and 
the theme for Theme Thursday is "wonder."