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April 26

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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 a...

April 25

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2019 My last day in Banff Aka Sleeping Buffalo. No tunnel; the surveyor was wrong and the CPR circles it. Getting up there Banff and Vermillion Lake 3/4 of the way Bow River. Hoodoos are down there I may be fat and pushing 60, it may have taken an hour to go 1.8 km, but I can still climb a mountain! Albeit a short one. The summit, looking at Banff These red plastic Adirondack style chairs are in the oddest places Limber pine? They are at risk, but they smell heavenly Mt Rundle: my daily view from bed, seen up close(r) The road was closed, adding an estimated mile round trip Day trip to Lake Louise Signs of spring Bow River, getting smaller I’m on the lake.... Because this is what the path is like This little guy followed me Beer and burger with a view Vermillion Lake wetlands Sunset feeding across the road from my hotel 2018 Hanging with my Mom! 2013 I kinda like this. The full moon in the abstract, With random car lights. The. Moon casts its glow. I share it virtually And feel so ...