April 26

2019
The tip of the iceberg: Royal Tyrell Museum: mainly Cretaceous creatures and marine fossils from Alberta’s inland Bearpaw Sea, but an excellent exhibit about the Burgess Shale and some fossils from other oil fields.

Bugs in amber. The cockroach fossil (not pictured) shows few changes over the millennia: they have staying power.
Iridescent ammonites are apparently unique to Alberta, and the bits and pieces make some really gaudy jewelry
Looks like a primitive bowling ball, but it’s really a skull
Working under a microscope, literally and figuratively
Footprints
Embedded tooth
Huge armored dinosaur
A fish in a fish
Dome skull
Fossil stump
Badlands in Red Deer valley by Royal Tyrell Dinosaur museum
Hoodoos!
Thar’s dinosaurs in them thar hills
2018
A crash and a boom,
And the house shakes. WTF?
A dust cloud rises.
2017
Leftover clouds line
The mountain base, then float up.
The sky fills slowly.
2015
I'm irritated
With comcast, but I do like
A pixel-free day.
2014
We look up and see
Brilliant yellow plumage:
A Scott's Oriole!

2013
Stepping back, I fall,
Winded and supine. What will
The third mishap be?

Misuse of car roof:
I pick up coffee mug shards.
Will they cause flat tires?

Does it help at all
To worry about others?
Healing thoughts to Don.

2010
Pasty white legs and 
Sandals and fishnets, striding 
Through a spring commute.

2009
Muddy cat prints down my shirt front and a rattle in my throat.

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