Jun 02 2013
Thee wanted lilies, and lilies thee shall have. But first, a singsong wot has got lilies in it. Some of you may recognize that as a poem by Saint John of the Cross, “Dark Night of the Soul.” Before I knew that, I thought it was about a woman sneaking out of the house for …
Jun 01 2013
We haven’t had enough mysteries lately, have we? No UFDs, no Mystery Flora, no Bodacious Botany, no Cryptopods… I’ll have to try to make it up to you. But I’m going to – ah ha ha – sort of duck out of it. But seriously, folks, I did see a bit of an odd duck, …
May 31 2013
Y’all should be checking Geokittehs on a regular basis already – Evelyn’s done an excellent job keeping the site up-to-date whilst I’ve been busy (or busy wasting time) elsewhere. But thanks to you lot, I’ve got a post up there at last! Do go enjoy the Dipuurgent Boundary, and remember to show Evelyn some love …
May 30 2013
“Needs an image illustrating oreogeny,” Chris Clarke says. Not happy with a geology prof’s work, are we? Well, then. Never let it be said I ignore reader requests – and I even fulfill them when I’ve got a bag of Oreos in the cupboard and the request comes in during an afternoon where I have …
May 30 2013
I’m one of those freaks of nature who doesn’t much like Oreos. However, I feel differently about them now that many of you, along with my Facebook friend Raymond Dickey, shared this: Okay, now I want an Oreo cookie! I didn’t realize they could be such perfect geology teaching tools. I’ll have to employ them …
May 24 2013
Sometimes, science feels like you’ve been given a superpower, because you can see things not many other people can see: I love being able to pick up an ordinary rock or a plain landscape, and reveal its epic history. I used to think science wasn’t creative. I was so very, very wrong. Science is story, …
May 15 2013
Forget all that happy-crappy positive thinking crap. Hang this up instead: Right?!
May 13 2013
Right. Some of you asked for lighthouses. You asked after Lockwood and I left the coast. There were lighthouses aplenty, but I’d basically blown them off in favor of the geology. Bugger. Still. Got a couple for ye. Well, one of them’s a fragment of a lighthouse, but it’s veritably a lighthouse. So that’s the …
May 11 2013
Okay, granted, this takes off on the teevee/movie Holmes, not the book Holmes, but it’s still fun. I’d love to talk forensic geology with Sherlock Holmes. If I get to kick around in an alternate universe, and can’t get to the one with The Doctor, that’s the universe I want to be in. Can some …
May 08 2013
Lockwood and I are at the end of Day 2 of our trip, and I have a computer full of photos. Some of them are actually geology, but today, I’m throwing one of my dozens of mystery flora at you. I know what these are, but I’m hoping they pose a bit of a challenge.
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