Adventures With Fossils
Today, since it was such a beautiful, warm, sunny Sunday, my younger daughter and I decided to go down to the park and feed the ducks.
These are the local quackers:
Feeding the ducks led us to go under this bridge, just for fun:
Once under this bridge, and then downstream, we came to this wonderful climbing tree:
I even climbed up into it. What a great tree! Anyway, from this tree, we walked down this path along the creek:
Notice the rock that this path is made out of? I thought at first it was old concrete, but upon closer inspection, I found it was some sort of petrified sea bottom. Why sea bottom? Well, I'll tell you why:
This, my friends, is what's known as a imprint fossil of an ancient sea shell. I was doubting what I was seeing at first, because, well, there were so many of them!
My daughter was all over this, instantly. She went around finding them loose, and started bagging them like an evidence technician at a murder scene. She also wanted to go home and get a pick and a shovel, and I had to patiently explain to her, over and over, that it was probably illegal being that this was a city park.
The creek runs right by a very nice library, so we went in and she checked out 5 books on fossils and dinosaurs, and she spent quite a bit of time going over them and identifying her specimens. Then, at one point, she announced that's what she wants to be when she grows up: A paleontologist.
That made my heart swell. My own kid, a scientist! Well, I can dream.
After our adventures with the fossils, we came home and played with Legolas, the ex-snake-food turned pet.
Hope everyone had a pleasant weekend! I sure did!
These are the local quackers:
Feeding the ducks led us to go under this bridge, just for fun:
Once under this bridge, and then downstream, we came to this wonderful climbing tree:
I even climbed up into it. What a great tree! Anyway, from this tree, we walked down this path along the creek:
Notice the rock that this path is made out of? I thought at first it was old concrete, but upon closer inspection, I found it was some sort of petrified sea bottom. Why sea bottom? Well, I'll tell you why:
This, my friends, is what's known as a imprint fossil of an ancient sea shell. I was doubting what I was seeing at first, because, well, there were so many of them!
My daughter was all over this, instantly. She went around finding them loose, and started bagging them like an evidence technician at a murder scene. She also wanted to go home and get a pick and a shovel, and I had to patiently explain to her, over and over, that it was probably illegal being that this was a city park.
The creek runs right by a very nice library, so we went in and she checked out 5 books on fossils and dinosaurs, and she spent quite a bit of time going over them and identifying her specimens. Then, at one point, she announced that's what she wants to be when she grows up: A paleontologist.
That made my heart swell. My own kid, a scientist! Well, I can dream.
After our adventures with the fossils, we came home and played with Legolas, the ex-snake-food turned pet.
Hope everyone had a pleasant weekend! I sure did!
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