Flamboozeld at Florrisant
So! This past week was busy. The younger sister came home on Sunday and then we took her to see the Florrisant Fossil Beds National Monument. It was cold and windy. Got to see the big stumps of petrified redwoods. The area was described by Mr. Scudder for the Hayden survey. Very cool. It'd take about 15 people to circle the girth of the Big Stump. Unfortunately as people traveled to Florrisant they would dig for and take pieces of fossilized wood from the stumps. Supposedly in the late 1800's there were more than one hundred stumps excavated and destroyed by collectors. Today only 30 stumps remain visible and many were re-buried to protect them from collectors. The whole area was a lake originally which is why large vertebrates are rarely found there. Fish, insects and plants are the norm but! They did find a portion of a Mesohippus jaw.
This summer I hope to drag Mom, Dad and Annie (or else just myself) to the Florrisant Fossil Quarry where you can dig in the paper-shale quarry for fossils. <3 I wanna get me a fossil-fish. Or a bug. But bugs creep me out so I'll hope for a fish.
We saw Rango. I loved it. I can see why the critics were all, 'Wait. What?' It is a very weird movie. After the movie we were all parched. The whole movie makes you feel dried up. Highly appropriate for where we live. ;)
No kayaking. It's still too cold. D: \
Also, TBOSoct... it's fun. Working on my comic first and then it's off to the reference. ;) Also, remember my idea for a Weird West/dinosaur comic? If I don't get into TBOSoct I may use that for art_SLAM.
~Weaver
This summer I hope to drag Mom, Dad and Annie (or else just myself) to the Florrisant Fossil Quarry where you can dig in the paper-shale quarry for fossils. <3 I wanna get me a fossil-fish. Or a bug. But bugs creep me out so I'll hope for a fish.
We saw Rango. I loved it. I can see why the critics were all, 'Wait. What?' It is a very weird movie. After the movie we were all parched. The whole movie makes you feel dried up. Highly appropriate for where we live. ;)
No kayaking. It's still too cold. D: \
Also, TBOSoct... it's fun. Working on my comic first and then it's off to the reference. ;) Also, remember my idea for a Weird West/dinosaur comic? If I don't get into TBOSoct I may use that for art_SLAM.
~Weaver