Summer 2017

Flume Gorge, Lincoln, New Hampshire


"The Kissing Bridge" across Pemigewasset River





Power of flowing water and frost: erosion of granite and basalt











Water enters The Pool


The pool's granite walls


Rocks and Trees I


Rocks and Trees I


Glacial Erratic from the last Ice Age


Rocks and Trees II

Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire













Ancient Reef of Isle La Motte, Lake Champlain, Vermont


Self-portrait


Stromatoporoid (Pseudostylodictyon lamottensis) mound, quarry wall


Another stromatoporoid?


Cephalopods


Cephalopods


More cephalopods


?


Nautiloid


Nautiloid and ?


Gastropod (Maclurites magnus)


Gastropods


Gastropod


Gastropod


?


More gastropods

chazy_reef_artist_reconstruction (56K)
An artist's reconstruction of life in the ocean 460 million years ago.
Such reefs were home to cephalopods, sponges, bryazoa, stromatoporoids, gastropods, and trilobites.
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Misc.


Painted turtle covered in duckweed, old quarry, Isle La Motte, VT


Painted turtle covered in duckweed II


Spider's catch


Waterlilies at Deweys Pond, Queechee, VT


"Fish on a Bike" (2016) by Martin McGowan, The Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT


Otter Creek, Middlebury, VT


Garden Menace, East Thetford, VT


Solar Eclipse of August 21 at its maximum, East Thetford, VT


Lepiota(?)





Valley Fog, Bald Top Mountain, Fairlee, VT