I took this picture in Iowa a few weeks ago. Forty years ago this entire church was ALL painted white or cream. All of that delicate detail below was obscured and barely noticeable. Obviously the shapes were still present, but when a renovation was done a few years ago, the church was revealed as it [...]
My mind works in a spiral, moving through different topics over time. As I struggle to finish a story about sheep and shepherds several problems have been evident. This particular story involves a LOT of animals, and I am not and never have been an animal person. That’s a steep, if fascinating, learning curve. I’ve [...]
Oh! Golly it’s Friday. I was totally immersed in research. Well, so here are my studies for the day. First, continuing my thoughts on meteorites, I discovered that there is a quarry in Sweden where meteorites, that fell hundreds of millions of years ago are preserved in the limestone. We aren’t talking big stuff, but [...]
(I added citations to the story and rearranged my poor chronology!) I’ve been looking up stories about meteorites and impact craters in Iowa. (Mostly.) There are two very ancient and very large impact structures, one 74 millions years old near Manson, Iowa and the second near Decorah, from 458 million years ago. Both structures were [...]
I wrote earlier about the driftless area in Iowa and Wisconsin. Drift is an older word for the stuff that glaciers move around, and then leave behind as they melt. I’m more familiar with ‘moraines’ and the hills they create. Seattle is an example. Those hills are steep but unstratified (unlayered) junk. The hills around [...]
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