Birthstone Globe

My wife's friend Helen popped in yesterday to visit the new arrival! She came bearing gifts and demonstrated her baby sitting skills. Todays blip is off the birthstone globe twinkling in the sunlight.

A birthstone is a gemstone, usually in the form of personal jewelry and most often in the form of a ring or pendant. Each stone is traditionally associated with various qualities that symbolize the month of birth in the Gregorian calendar.

This blip demonstrates Carnelian for July which (also spelled cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral which is commonly used as a semi-precious gemstone.