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Day Off, Panning, Arrowhead
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Thursday off, South to Explore a few new roads. The Oscar-Bear FSR, behind Ymir, metamorphic shales, basalts, to about 10 KM where it gets too overgrown to continue. Probably it got overgrown at 5 KM, but I never let that stop me...
Then, to the Penne-D'oreille & Beaver Valley, pan for gold, look for sapphires. Nada. Although they're there I'm sure it was not a day to be south.
Done at around 2:00 PM, too early to find parking in town, so head on up to Balfour, where I spend a couple of hours looking for arrowheads. One find, a very old red jasper point, broken and reworked into a scraper, some other debitage, and a great view of the Balfour Eagle, now moved on by the lost of his/her nest...
Balfour eagle...
Finally, the payoff of the day:
Red jasper, the tip broken off and then refashioned into a scraper. Judging by the wear on the edges a few thousand years old...
Impossible Color
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This, on the idea that there we can somehow apprehend in our mind's eye colours that have no corollary in the real world.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color
Note that if you do the exercises you might be able to see them as well...
Cerutti Mastadon & Giant Armadillos
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Forever pushing back the timeline of humans in the Americas, a couple of articles that seem to substantiate the presence of humans or homo-??? well outside the conventional timelines. There are actually an awful lot more, but you can do your own research.
Slow Productivity
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No one has this down better than I. So slow as to be unnoticeable, slowly, inexorably crawling towards an invisible finish line...
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