Sunday, January 04, 2009

Here are some more pictures from today's walk, which this time was with Garrison. This is a strange rock that he found down the road at his friend's house: This is another strange rock that Zack found outside at our house. It's rounded and looks a lot like a turtle sans legs and head.
The picture really doesn't show this one well, but it looks like fossilized coral or sponge. The entire rock is full of holes on all sides.


And this one has an imprint that resembles a brain. It is probably a shell or something, but we like to imagine it is a brain fossil, lol.


Here's Garrison, eating an apple on our hike with Bobbie Sue beside him. Bobbie Sue is the dog we got from the pound as a puppy to be Badger's companion. She has turned out to be a great dog, after a rocky start. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to stop her from chasing the chickens, but she learned and is now a very good guardian to them. I never could understand why she always got in front of the things she tried to herd, as she has a very strong herding instinct. Then I learned that herd dogs come in two types: headers and heelers - she must be a header. She escorts all the cars up and down the driveway, and harrasses the horses from the front of them constantly, trying to make them chase her.



Here is our collection of arrowheads and flint pieces that we've found around the place:
And this fossil looks like either fish scales or the bark of a tropical palm-type tree.


The cave entrance. It's very difficult to access:

So those are the photos from today's walkabout. Hope you enjoy them!







2 comments:

Cindy said...

I need to visit your blog more often, its very nice. I think some of your rock pictures look like loaves of bread!
cindy jones

Anonymous said...

Those top two photos looks like fosselized turtle shells.