On a trip in 2008 to Colorado, on the way home in Kansas near a family cemetery in Gorham, KS; detail of fossils in limestone...on fence posts!
As most of us know, there were few trees in Kansas when farmers arrived to put up fences for their cattle, so they found it easier to fashion the posts from the local stone...
These posts were probably installed in the 1880's?
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Thursday, April 7, 2016
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To Remember Dad's 103rd Birth Anniversary, Something Different
My Grandparents on my Dad's side were both "bonus babies", kids who were born to much older parents, long after they expected...
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My Grandparents on my Dad's side were both "bonus babies", kids who were born to much older parents, long after they expected...
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The Official First Flower of the Growing Season 2010--the chilly, bloodless snow-drop tentatively peeps up, through the crust of bird-seed ...
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...socializing with a very well behaved and smiling Pit Bull and his young owners. A portrait for Camera Critters .