Today was quite an eventful day, for many reasons! Went to the Zoo Lights at the
Denver Zoo with some good friends of ours; learned that Ray Wise is not in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but is actually in X-Men: First Class; and learned that the building off the highway called "Quaker Steak and Lube" is actually a restaurant, and not a car repair place. Also, on my way to the
Morrison Museum this morning, I saw what I am pretty sure was a
peregrine falcon, as well as a number of
red-tailed hawks and
kestrels, and the
great-horned owl that I have seen a few times recently perched on the "speed limit" sign on the highway! It was pretty awesome! Oh, and did I mention that one of my fossils might be radioactive?
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| One of the Zoo Lights was this tiger, but I'm pretty sure he's supposed to go around something a little thicker.... |
I was talking to
Dr. Bob today at the museum, and we were talking about fossil hunting in
Texas, chiefly the fossils that I got down there when we went to visit my gramma last Christmas, as well as the fossil dig-site that he has down there. As we were talking, I thought back to the
fossilized wood (top picture, the thing with the penny on it and everything to the right and above that piece) that I had picked up in Santa Rosa,
New Mexico, on one of the first nights of our trip. I had never been able to figure out what formation or what geologic time period it came from, so I asked Dr. Bob. He said that there are a lot of different aged rocks from throughout the Mesozoic Era (the time of the
dinosaurs), from the
Triassic to the
Cretaceous. Then, as a sidenote, he mentioned that some of the fossilized wood down there tends to be radioactive, sometimes dangerously so. Well then! I am currently sorting this out, but I feel like I don't really have enough to worry about. Famous last words, right?
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