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Found the USB Microscope I'd used for my prospecting tailings and put it to use looking at a few pieces of what I suspected were dinosaur teeth that I'd picked up Saturday with the daughter.
A zoom in on a serrated piece of tooth - about 15 mm across, and broken as it tapered up and down. The serrations suggest predation by land dinosaurs - think therapods.
The other side of the same tooth - the serrations are more clearly visible, they look like a mini-set of teeth (growing out from a tooth...) - the infinitely recursive fractal geometry of life...
Excuse the bits of wool - all specimens were carefully stored in my sketchy rave hoody. And in the process acquired a bit of extraneous wool.
Clearly defined serrations on a tiny shard of tooth (this piece of tooth was under a centimeter in length and half as wide. But the serrations were clearly visible, and the enamel-vs bone is not too tough to spot.
Zoom in on bits of lichen growing on a piece of dinosaur bone...
as above...
Close up, texture of fossilized bone
As above. Not sure if that bright green is mineral, vegetable or fungi.
Texture of tooth, enamel, but no edges to confirm.
Same as above, but some pretty/interesting patterns of weathering & mineralizations.
Now that I've found the 'scope I can look at all my dinosaur bones under it!!! And THEN won't this blog be exciting!!!!!
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Gonna start an image blog of Calgary, the city that's perpetually under-construction and never, ever there. A melancholy day made worse by the landscape...
They're everywhere these, the roadside-flattened-squirrels; Calgary should make a giant welcome mat out of them, if only to protect you from the needles...
I should print up a bunch of Artists Cards and leave them at these little extemporaneous found-art discoveries...
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Slightly before Port Alberni, coming from Victoria.
Trees.
Big Tree. Lots of big trees here.
Yep, the trees here sure are big...
And a curious roadside shrine, just a hundred yards from the turnoff to Cathedral Grove.
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Tiny blobs of protoplasm, jellyfish, washed up on the beach...
A decaying (and stinky!) harbour seal. Which recalls a few days earlier, walking along the breakwater in Victoria I overheard a little girl asking about a baby seal "sleeping" in the water, bobbing up and down. And the mother's explaining that, yes, it's gone to it's "forever sleep", which was kinda both touching and cheesy at the same time. My kids, I'd a told 'em "There's a baby seal that didn't listen to it's parents...".