Trampled Underfoot
An dreary, chilly, overcast day. Our high was 54F.
A got back on the horse, the horse being The Night Watchers, but it was an unsteady affair, and I do not know if anything I wrote today can be saved. I'm canceling tomorrow's time at McWane so that Kathryn and I can sit down and talk over the second half of te book again. And I worked on the Bashi Marl a couple of hours, som e nice ray and shark teeth.
This afternoon, I watched two documentaries, a slightly odd episode of Nova on elevators, narrated by John Lithgow, and then a very nice episode of American Experience about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony. Last night, Kathryn and I began watching Fringe again, which we'd not gone back to since the show concluded in 2014. Oh, I have missed you, Walter Bishop.
There was the sad new this morning that one of the greats of 20th-century vertebrate paleontology had died, Dr. Martin Lockley (1950-2023), king of the dinosar trackers. In the summer of 1986, not long after I arrived in Boulder, I was fortunate enough to go along with Dr. Robert T. Bakker (my mentor while I was in Colorado) and Dr. Lockley to see the discoveries being made at what would become the Purgatoire River track site. We camped near the banks of the river, and Dr. Lockley led us along the long trackways that had been made by sauropods and theropods in the Late Jurassic. It was one of those genuinely transcendant experiences. Dr. Lockley's death is a great loss to the science; ichnology and dinosaur paleontology owe him a great debt.
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Thanks.
Later Tater Bugs,
Aunt Beast
3:32 p.m.
A got back on the horse, the horse being The Night Watchers, but it was an unsteady affair, and I do not know if anything I wrote today can be saved. I'm canceling tomorrow's time at McWane so that Kathryn and I can sit down and talk over the second half of te book again. And I worked on the Bashi Marl a couple of hours, som e nice ray and shark teeth.
This afternoon, I watched two documentaries, a slightly odd episode of Nova on elevators, narrated by John Lithgow, and then a very nice episode of American Experience about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony. Last night, Kathryn and I began watching Fringe again, which we'd not gone back to since the show concluded in 2014. Oh, I have missed you, Walter Bishop.
There was the sad new this morning that one of the greats of 20th-century vertebrate paleontology had died, Dr. Martin Lockley (1950-2023), king of the dinosar trackers. In the summer of 1986, not long after I arrived in Boulder, I was fortunate enough to go along with Dr. Robert T. Bakker (my mentor while I was in Colorado) and Dr. Lockley to see the discoveries being made at what would become the Purgatoire River track site. We camped near the banks of the river, and Dr. Lockley led us along the long trackways that had been made by sauropods and theropods in the Late Jurassic. It was one of those genuinely transcendant experiences. Dr. Lockley's death is a great loss to the science; ichnology and dinosaur paleontology owe him a great debt.
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Thanks.
Later Tater Bugs,
Aunt Beast
3:32 p.m.