One of my favorite things about fossils is how lovely they can be. 33 Million years ago an alder leaf settled into wet volcanic ash where it was eventually covered by more ash. This rock beautifully preserves the moment from an ancient age when the world was quite different.
Photographed at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Phtography is wonderful, it’s changed so much in the last 50 years but it still such a powerful medium
I like fssoils, too. I have a shark’s fin fssoil that I got years ago from one of my brother’s college roommates. It’s kind of fragile. It’s dark black. Probably shale. I have small rocks from all over. A few from Jamaica look as if they have shell imprints on them. We live in an old bungalow. The masonry along the front steps is made out of limestone. If you look really close, you can see fssoils in the limestone, too. I like living in a house that comes with its own fssoils. I hope some day to go on a dinosaur dig. I think that would be a lot of fun.