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#WayBackWednesday Giant Isopods for Valentine's Day. Over two dozen of these giant #isopods were captured, including two juveniles less than 10 cm long. go.usa.gov/xn6Ex @noaaoceanexploration #GulfofMexico #deepsea #biology #UniversityofOregon #NSF #OregonSeaGrant
Photo: A Bathynomus giganteus removed from a trap. Over two dozen of these giant isopods were captured, including two juveniles less than 10 cm long. The students studied these creatures' blood proteins, stable isotopes and epibionts.
Photo Credit: NOAA Ocean Explorer
Wayback Machine - 1960s
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
Taken from the front steps of my grandparent's house... looking out at my grandpa's garage and what was then U.S. Highway 70.
Rural Transit 10345 Hino RK 1J bus bound for Pagadian City from Dipolog City.
In this picture circa late 2010, this is one of the three buses were in convoy loaded with HS and Elementary students to an educational event in Pagadian City, was almost fell on the cliff whilst stucked.
A YouTube video was taken that year. Link: youtube.com/watch?v=zomA2f2_6Ws
Although this was the bus model in Dipolog-Pagadian, it is currently deploying FB4J units as 106xx series.
Veiled Sunset Rattlesnake Ridge
One of my favorite antiques on the ranch is this 1920’s-1930’s Deering Seeder sitting on the toe of a high ridge. The Cretaceous Sandstones capping/covering this isolated plateau of Sage and Spanish Dagger are these hard layers and lenses of hardened sand. This hard sand/rock was cemented harder than the sandstone taken away by erosion around it. Harder due to differences in the “Diagenetic” processes that turned loose plastic sand to rock. Notice I didn’t say magic processes. Good google word for today… It’s the reason the ridge is there… Hard rock protects the softer sandstone below…
The hard cap rock this scene is built over was laid down by just one act of a 3 million year long stage show. At the End of the Reign of the Dinosaurs on the coastal slope (piedmont really) toward the Cretaceous Era “Inland Sea” Sea sediments are 900 feet down here. Above them, the Beach Sand above that marine sediment. That is named Fox Hill Formation. From the old beach is where we get our water. Above that (below me) is another 700 feet of River Sand (Hell Creek/Lance Formations) that many ancient rivers carried lazily here.
I say many because these watersheds with rivers miles wide.. (think anastomosing braided channels of dendritic sand choked channels on a massive scale. Similar to the amazon water shed. This was the last stage for the dinosaurs to live out their last moments. The coast was extant from Canada to northern New Mexico. All along the coast of that land a mere 66 million years before present.
There were untold millions of high water/flood events in the history of this land. Mountains long gone to our west fed vast quantities of sand worn from them by wind water and ice. Our Ranch lies on 14 mile wide strip of Hell Creek/Lance formation exposed on the surface. This exposed due to streams and rivers moving thousands of feet of sediment that used to be above us away. Cutting into these old beds at a slight angle. Youngest rocks west with Older to the east.
Then somebody came along and “dumped this 100 (ish) year old farm implement here giving me a subject in this remote environment. What are the chances lolol.
In my world, the past is the key to the present and the future. Integral within our processes of the present exists hand me down learning from the past. Geological process occur without our being aware of them or not. My point is understanding the past helps predict the future as well as interpreting the present.
Oh, My LED lightbar on “Clever Girl” added some flavor to this freshly rained upon dynamic sunset through a storm in the deep backcountry.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Veiled Sunset Rattlesnake Ridge
Way Back Machine - 1966
The ladies from my mom's bowling team arrive at the motel where they were staying for a tournament.
These were an irritation to mom... but I love these accidental double exposures that happened every now and then.
Mike and I covered an old box with printouts from an old design project I was working on. It holds a game our neighbor's genius cousin created called the snake game. We gave this as a gift to Mike's sister Colleen a few years ago. Photo by Mike.
Wayback Machine - 1940s
Mount Mitchell State Park, NC
Photo by Bobby Ritchie
My grandmother tells mom's boyfriend not to take her picture. He took it anyway....
Probably why he didn't make it, while my dad did. Oh, well.. too bad for him.
He did know how to photograph shadows, though..
My mom is the one on top of the rock.