Archaeologists working in Nebraska have excavated sherds of European ceramics in an 18th century Indian site that they believe may be evidence of the ill-fated Villasur Expedition. In the early 1700s, French traders from Louisiana began to expand their activities west across the Plains into what Spain considered to be its territory. In the summer …
Author: Reid Farmer
More Trilobites
Another museum stop in San Francisco was at The California Academy of Sciences, also located in Golden Gate Park. While there, I saw these wonderful trilobite fossils. You might recall a post I did early in the month, that linked to a New York Times article on trilobites that had a rather amazing picture of a …
Gottardo Piazzoni and a Friend
Earlier in the month, Connie and I took a trip to the Bay Area. Connie was taking a training course in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday of that week, and while she was in school, I played hookey and hit a couple of museums. On the weekend, we drove up to Sonoma County and …
Big Tom
Connie and I were visiting a local land reserve a few days ago and saw this guy struttin’ for the ladies.
A Very Old Site In Brazil
Last week the New York Times had this article about a rock shelter in Brazil that had yielded a date of 22,000 BP for its earliest human occupation. The article goes on about its implications for dating the peopling of the New World, which if you have been reading some of our posts here, you’ll …
Times Change
For some of the work I have been doing with the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board, I have recently I have spent a fair amount of time with my nose in issues of historic Colorado newspapers. We do landmark nominations and I sometimes need to look in the old papers to straighten out footnotes and …
Trilobites
In addition to this awesome picture of a fossil from Morrocco, today’s New York Times has an article about the life and times of trilobites that I certainly learned a lot from. As I was reading it I found I had assumed I knew much more about them than I really did. And as the title …
Bella and the Short-faced Bear
I took this picture of our granddaughter last week just outside the Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles. I guess this is a bit of a teaser as I’ll have another post soon with pictures of what we saw inside the museum. I have to point out that our visit …
Oh, Canada
I ran up to Barr Lake yesterday to look around before last night’s storm got here. I was intrigued by these flocks, each of hundreds of Canada Geese, who after 15 or 20 minutes in one spot, would suddenly collectively decide to take off, then fly 400 – 500 yards away to another spot on the ice. …
A Bird of My Youth
Those of you who live in the East may think this silly, but the Cardinal, one of the birds I grew up with in Tennesse, is one of my favorites. We don’t have them here and it’s always a thrill to see them when I travel back into their range. I took these pictures of …