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Grandpa's soccer team

I only saw him play

badminton

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This is Bert the troll. My wife made him for me. To give you an idea of the scale, he's on the seat of an armchair in this photo. He is very very very cute!

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dusty frame
around faded snapshot
who?

Rock photos

I have been tweeting these. I should post some of the prettiest here, like I used to.






Here we have a brown ooid in a gray limestone. The ooid was exposed & weathered, then re-buried. The other photo shows micropellets in an oolitic rock. Pellets=poop, but these miniatures are probably microbially mediated precipitates. They're so small, most critters are just too big to be the culprits.

let's get small

An ooid, a concentrically laminated calcium carbonate spheroid, formed inorganically by wave action around a pre-existing nucleus. The nucleus in this case is the microscopic shell of an amoeba called a foraminiferan. Just so you know.

A tiny box without key or lid
inside a chambered treasure hid
its maker dead and long forgot
yet carbon saved so we aren't hot

Doggerel again, I'm afraid.

exposed rock in snow

zebra? snakes on gypsum sand? linear bacterial colonies in calcium sulfate?