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 a...