Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Waiting to Tell an Epic Tale

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The Roxbury Conglomerate waited to tell its story 20 feet from where I played with my son and visited with friends at Martin Hilltop Playgro...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Everybody's Got to Eat

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Life will do anything for energy. On the mid slope trail of Portland's Eastern Promenade the ruddy, oily mess that surrounded me made th...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Through the Past and into the Future: A View from the Harpswell Cliffs

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The cliff walk in Harpswell lives up to its name. The trail makes a turn and dumps you out on a view worth far more than the effort require...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Say Goodbye to Graptolites...

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Graptolite fossils from Presque Isle I t's hard to get sentimental about graptolites. The fossil of what's actually a colony of...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Long View: Half a Billion Years in the County

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 The view from State Street in Presque Isle This August I spent a week in mythic Aroostook County.  Throughout my week there I navig...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Skipping Stones at Kettle Cove

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An assortment of stones at Kettle Cove,  including white quartz and gray phyllite  Chasing my fifteen month old son at Kettle Cove beac...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Tipping the Clown: Changing Density in the Deer Isle Granite

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When I was young I had an inflatable clown with weights on the bottom, so you could administer whatever childhood battering you cared to, a...