"So dig for treasure and when you find it you will know what to do…" R.P.F.

Digging beyond the miseries

Scene from "Digging Graves" by Dustin Engstrom

During ISV's Costa Rican adventure, volunteers get the chance to help endangered sea turtles.

This photo was taken by Alana Heilbig from Australia.

To sign up for a similar volunteer project abroad, visit www.isvolunteers.org today!

We are having a snowstorm and when I went to the store this am I snapped these.

Richardi Reservoir, Randolph, MA 5/23/10

Location: Stratford, London, England

A few days later, things are really heating up.

A sequence of the amazing solifug digging behaviour:

1- Turning a rock 5 times bigger and 20 times heavier;

2- For one the most powerful chelicerae in the animal kingdom biting a sandy rock is like having a muffin for breakfast;

3- The bitten rock is them passed under the body and pushed away through the back legs;

4- Shooing in more rock;

5- and shooing and using the suctorial ability of the palps to grab "small" rocks;

6- And them using the chelicerae as a shovel and pushing the rocky remains out;

Polly finds something interesting in one the planters.

I asked permission to take their photo. They told me he'd achieved this in an hour and a half!

Here is the beginning of the hangi fire made out of burning pallets from a work site in Lower Hutt. We started this fire at 7am on the day of the hangi to allow the wood to burn down enough and for the irons to get hot enough.

May 22, 2018

Uphill Sprint to the finish line on Patrick Street

Dinosaur National Monument in Utah/Colorado. They built the museum over a current workspace.

Raina and I take a moment to be cheesy after a morning of digging out the foundation. About halfway done! (thanks to Tessa and Jojo)

Heather took some great pictures of James during a BBQ on Sunday. I thought I'd try out some "reverse orton" photoshopping and while I was playing around with a texture layer, I accidentally came across this tint.

I'll try to come up with a couple more variations...

this place is a big place where digging for moclay is made for commercial purpose and the moclay is being used for cat-strey and for tiles inside the fireplace...

We are allowed to walk there and look for fossils and when we were there nobody were working...but trucks use to drive in and out on working days....

digging for sweet potatoes...with my friends..

CRJI Leadership Training -Digging Deeper Project

This is everyone building jumps.

We buried a large amount of toy dinosaurs and creepy crawlies in this sand box and provided shovels for the kids to dig. Anything they dug up, they kept. Made for an interesting and slightly different party game :)

Lunch break! We ate Matoke, a type of banana thing, mixed with a type of nut sauce. It was INCREDIBLY salty, and the brothers put MORE salt on top.

Skipping a few days ahead of the downtown journey to see the last of the Lindell demolition, downtown Detroit.

Lindell AC demolition progress (to be replaced with a transit center)

Digging lesson

For Musically Challenged

Digging in the Dirt by Peter Gabriel

"I'm digging in the dirt

Stay with me I need support"

I realize this might be a bit too literal, but it does show some elements of struggle.

Saw at a riverside of Taiwan

The West Tower, West Range and East Tower at Helmsley Castle, built in the early 12th century by Walter Espec. The castle was strengthened and modernised throughout the Middle Ages but during the Civil War its defences were dismantled. The path on the left is part of the earthworks walk. The structure is in the care of English Heritage.

Digging a couple hundred holes for new coffee trees. Sometimes digging by hand is actually more efficient than bringing in fancy equipment. My neighbor was digging holes at the same time but these guys actually went faster than his backhoe.

Let's hope the hunt lasts til this evening for another night of even more wacky digging in the dark.

Here is the back before they started digging.

Runner 1669 digs deep in the heat of the Lisbon Marathon as he pulls on his inspiration

After the 100 year old compost, a Pea Straw layer was added.