It Is Starting To Bloom Outside!!! Smell Like Earth And Worms!! The Grass Is Tall And Awake!!! Flowers

Obi on Shane Madej’s instastory on April 29, 2019.

Nargothrond - Estaing, France

Big trays of fossil sea urchins

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A Highland Coo and her calf wandering down an empty road, Argyll and the Isles, Scotland. Credit: Andy Maclachlan.

I miss doing microscope work. Can we make a thread of our favourite thin section? This is mine

Actinolite Schist

Smoky quartz with the inclusion of hydrocarbons ( oil and bitumen ) Alatau Ridge, Republic Of Bashkortostan, Ural, Russia Photo: Pakhneva Ekaterina

An incredible piece of petrified wood I found a little while ago. Where, you ask? In the decorative gravel outside a pizza place near me. Yes, really.

Seriously, take a look through some of those bits of landscaping next time you're around one. I have found large, nearly whole brachiopods, petrified wood, agates....stuff I never thought I'd just find. And gravel for those is typically sourced from local gravel pits, more or less, so it will be stuff that's from wherever you are, just concentrated :)