Petrel Point Nature Reserve
Petrel Point Orchids
Petrel Point and Isaac Lake Frogs
Water Snake at Bognor
The Depths
Walters Falls Loop
Agitate by Aleister Monkfish
Book Burning
Below is a list of some of the numerous books that were lost in the fire of 2012. It’s only now I can emotionally handle making this list and I will add to it as I remember things. While most of these are easily replaceable it kills me to see how much some of these out-of-print books go for!
- Hallucinogens and Shamanism, Michael J. Hamer
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- The Penguin Book of Witches and Warlocks, Marvin Kaye
- Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
- I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
- Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
- Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll
- Nexus, Sexus, Plexus, Henry Miller
- Drawing Down the Moon, Margot Adler
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
- D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
- Quinn’s Book, William Kennedy
- Night, Elie Wiesel
- Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Philip K Dick
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
- USA Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel, 1919, Big Money, John Dos Passos
- Dubliners, James Joyce
Dinosaur Bone
This “rock” has been sitting in the basement of the family house for close decades. My grandmother Hazel Dawson found it back in the 1960s on a trip to the Alberta Badlands. This fall I sent a series of photos of the “rock” to Carl Mehling of the Fossil Amphibian, Reptile, and Bird Collections, Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.
Mr. Mehling was kind enough to take a look and immediately confirmed that this was a dinosaur bone fragment. Unfortunately there is not enough of the specimen to identify the bone or the dinosaur type from which it came from suffice to say that the hadrosaurs (duck-billed dinosaurs) and ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs) were the most common species in that part of the world. Mr. Mehling stated “Your piece is most likely from within the Late Cretaceous and should be about 75-78 million years old.” Incredible and I thought it had been laying in the basement a long time.
