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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 8, 2019 16:10:07 GMT -5
Beth that's PB's new way of free hosting. They watermark the pictures. I was actually thinking of trying it again since flickr has turned commie now too 😉 Nate, I think you hit that nail on the head. I never removed my photos, or deleted my account with. Today was the first time I had logged in for awhile. PB made me an offer to host another 250 photos.... Hmmm. I have over 4000 on there.
Jean
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Post by nowyo on Jan 8, 2019 16:17:31 GMT -5
Scrolling down through and said Hot Damn! Jean found my mind that I lost years ago. Taking a closer look, however, I realized it was much too large to be my mind. Rats.
That's a really nice coral-all the ones we've found are just grey/brown. Great pics, thanks for sharing.
Russ
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 8, 2019 16:22:03 GMT -5
The group photo, without PB self promotion
A couple more while I was at it.
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Post by fernwood on Jan 8, 2019 16:25:09 GMT -5
I never used PB. Got a great deal, at least I think it is, to upgrade my Flickr to Pro with unlimited hosting for $32.00 for the year. Just did not have enough time to remove over 2000 photos from there, so I bailed. I really love all the fossils you find. Never knew there were that many excellent fossils in CA. Hoping someone can help ID the brain you found. I have never seen anything like it. Looks like a rice pudding that would be offered in johnw 's pasty shop, lol. Or maybe a mound of mini marshmallows.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 8, 2019 16:26:56 GMT -5
Scrolling down through and said Hot Damn! Jean found my mind that I lost years ago. Taking a closer look, however, I realized it was much too large to be my mind. Rats. That's a really nice coral-all the ones we've found are just grey/brown. Great pics, thanks for sharing. Russ
Thanks, Russ. I'll keep looking for it for you, lol. corals are few and far between, but they are out there. I'm surprised our old person eyes can find as much as we do.
After all the time spent looking, I guess it is just business as usual. The eyes have been well trained over the years.
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Post by fernwood on Jan 8, 2019 16:27:59 GMT -5
Excellent fossils, for sure. Love the colors. What type of minerals are in the soil that causes the enhanced colors? Here it is mostly iron. Kind if hit and miss. I find some with the reds and others that are mostly browns and whites. Here most fossils are glacial in origin. What are they in CA?
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Post by NDK on Jan 8, 2019 16:30:10 GMT -5
Great finds Jean rockpickerforever. I really love that brain. What a conversation piece! Re PB, I also never deleted my account. I got an email from them explaining the watermark a while back. Is there somewhere that tells you how many pix are on your account? IDK if I'm anywhere near my limit. ETA: found it. I'm at 25%👍
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 8, 2019 16:35:39 GMT -5
fernwood, I started my PB account when I first joined RTH. I have a lot of photos on there, but I always resized my pics before uploading. Even now, it says I am only 22% full. Yes, Flickr is playing the same game, but at least they gave us a little notice. But I do understand, they need to make money. When Flickr first notified their account holders in November of the impending change, I think we had until January 5th? or something, then they would start removing pics to get you down to a certain amount. With the holidays in that time frame, I thought it prudent to go ahead and pay for a year. Figured that would give me enough time to make a decision about what I wanted to do.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 8, 2019 16:46:31 GMT -5
Excellent fossils, for sure. Love the colors. What type of minerals are in the soil that causes the enhanced colors? Here it is mostly iron. Kind if hit and miss. I find some with the reds and others that are mostly browns and whites. Here most fossils are glacial in origin. What are they in CA?
There is a lot of ash from volcanos throughout the area. So a lot of silica in solution. But then wood that petrifies right there is a boring, baby-shit brown. Some of it will pick up some color, but, for the most part, the colorful, highly agatized stuff petrified elsewhere, and was washed south into the area via the ancient Colorado River. A lot of the nicer fossils came from elsewhere. I found a nice piece of pet wood last month, I'll try to get a pic of that up.
This is SE California, southwest of the Salton Sea. No idea how it works in, say, the northern part of the state.
The Salton Sea basin is filled with other fossils that did not transport down the CO river. Besides having material brought down by the river, the basin has, at various times over the years, been a lake, and also an inland sea.
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Post by fernwood on Jan 8, 2019 16:57:13 GMT -5
I did the Fickr pay for the same reason as you. Wait and see.
Thanks for the explanation on fossil colors. There was an ancient volcanic range to the west of me. The edge of the glacial lake went from that range to my property. My property was also the furthest decent of the most recent glacier. The glacier knocked off the top of the Niagara Escarpment, an ancient coral reef which stretched from Wisconsin to Niagara Falls in NY. A combo of these things is why I am finding what I do. I love everything fossils and appreciate any time anyone here posts things related to fossils. I am learning so much. All of your finds are amazing.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 8, 2019 17:53:34 GMT -5
Took a few pix of the pet wood from OW last month. This the only colorful one found that trip.
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Post by fernwood on Jan 8, 2019 17:59:38 GMT -5
Nice PW
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Post by johnw on Jan 8, 2019 21:36:52 GMT -5
Jean, OMG,.... OMG....OMG, what a find. The cookers over at Big Crazy's Pastry Shop are going nuts. They tell me, well, with no disrespect to you, they could not under any circumstance offer what you have, as a desert, as fernwood suggested out of total respect for what you have really found. You decidedly found a brain, but not any brain, not even an alien brain, they told me in hushed terms, but what you actually have in the palm of you hand, is the brain of a long lost Sentient Being. The metaphysical properties of the remains you accidentally found defy anyones imagination. They tell me under no circumstance should you ever consider cutting the brain. It is to be treated with profound respect and reverence since what you have, being already over 200 million years old , will in fact last an eternity.
And, just so you understand the significance of your find, the cookers ask that you place the brain on the floor in front of your four legged friends and watch their reactions. Your four legged friends will intuitively know what they are looking at, being Sentient Beings themselves.
Their reactions will be priceless.
With Respect,
JohnW
Update: after further discussions with the cookers at Big Crazy's Pastry Shop they tell me the "Long Lost Sentient Beings Brain" still has residual energy even after 200 million years. They instructed me how to "see".......... I pass this gift on to you.
If you look carefully you can see the energy centers still communicating within the brain chambers. Cheers, johnw
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 9, 2019 1:06:35 GMT -5
Jean, OMG,.... OMG....OMG, what a find. The cookers over at Big Crazy's Pastry Shop are going nuts. They tell me, well, with no disrespect to you, they could not under any circumstance offer what you have, as a desert, as fernwood suggested out of total respect for what you have really found. You decidedly found a brain, but not any brain, not even an alien brain, they told me in hushed terms, but what you actually have in the palm of you hand, is the brain of a long lost Sentient Being. The metaphysical properties of the remains you accidentally found defy anyones imagination. They tell me under no circumstance should you ever consider cutting the brain. It is to be treated with profound respect and reverence since what you have, being already over 200 million years old , will in fact last an eternity.
And, just so you understand the significance of your find, the cookers ask that you place the brain on the floor in front of your four legged friends and watch their reactions. Your four legged friends will intuitively know what they are looking at, being Sentient Beings themselves.
Their reactions will be priceless.
With Respect,
JohnW
Update: after further discussions with the cookers at Big Crazy's Pastry Shop they tell me the "Long Lost Sentient Beings Brain" still has residual energy even after 200 million years. They instructed me how to "see".......... I pass this gift on to you.
If you look carefully you can see the energy centers still communicating within the brain chambers. Cheers, johnw
John,thank you for your observations and suggestions. Alas, I no longer have any four-legged friends to watch their reactions. I imagine it would have been something to behold. I will faithfully remain the guardian of this special stone, assuring that it will never have an encounter with a rock saw. I will go so far as to give it a special place among my other specimen rocks, and allow it to be covered over time with a protective coating of dust. Jean
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Post by johnw on Jan 9, 2019 1:42:11 GMT -5
Hi Jean, I am very sorry to hear that you do not have any more of your four legged friends. I can tell you how they would have reacted thought, both paws would have shot out and they would have sat back on their haunches, they would have backed up then moved forward quickly again coming closer, then immediately backed up and turned away and turned back to see it again, possibly touching it with their snout or paws. There would have been several woofs with their heads moving slightly upwards during the encounter. Am I right? I have had doggies for all of my life up to the time I left for Asia............... Now I am sad. Cheers, johnw
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Post by johnw on Jan 9, 2019 1:54:45 GMT -5
Jean said : "I will faithfully remain the guardian of this special stone, assuring that it will never have an encounter with a rock saw. I will go so far as to give it a special place among my other specimen rocks, and allow it to be covered over time with a protective coating of dust."
Well, now thats a thought, but did you ever consider that you may have a big brownish opal that would only reveal itself only to The Apprentice to the ONE? Just a coincidence, who knows, but something pointed you in the right direction so that you could have an encounter, and find it. Goose bump time. Cheers, johnw
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Post by johnw on Jan 9, 2019 16:18:23 GMT -5
Jean, OMG,.... OMG....OMG, what a find. The cookers over at Big Crazy's Pastry Shop are going nuts. They tell me, well, with no disrespect to you, they could not under any circumstance offer what you have, as a desert, as fernwood suggested out of total respect for what you have really found. You decidedly found a brain, but not any brain, not even an alien brain, they told me in hushed terms, but what you actually have in the palm of you hand, is the brain of a long lost Sentient Being. The metaphysical properties of the remains you accidentally found defy anyones imagination. They tell me under no circumstance should you ever consider cutting the brain. It is to be treated with profound respect and reverence since what you have, being already over 200 million years old , will in fact last an eternity.
And, just so you understand the significance of your find, the cookers ask that you place the brain on the floor in front of your four legged friends and watch their reactions. Your four legged friends will intuitively know what they are looking at, being Sentient Beings themselves.
Their reactions will be priceless.
With Respect,
JohnW
Update: after further discussions with the cookers at Big Crazy's Pastry Shop they tell me the "Long Lost Sentient Beings Brain" still has residual energy even after 200 million years. They instructed me how to "see".......... I pass this gift on to you.
If you look carefully you can see the energy centers still communicating within the brain chambers. Cheers, johnw
John,thank you for your observations and suggestions. Alas, I no longer have any four-legged friends to watch their reactions. I imagine it would have been something to behold. I will faithfully remain the guardian of this special stone, assuring that it will never have an encounter with a rock saw. I will go so far as to give it a special place among my other specimen rocks, and allow it to be covered over time with a protective coating of dust. Jean
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Post by johnw on Jan 9, 2019 16:24:28 GMT -5
Not sure if Flickr is messing around or the Sentient Beings are making a statement. Sorry for the intrusion and omission of the image. I corrected it on the main post. Cheers, johnw
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 9, 2019 16:32:09 GMT -5
johnw , no problemo. I fixed the link in the quoted post. Now all is well with the world.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 10, 2019 11:39:56 GMT -5
Hi Jean, I am very sorry to hear that you do not have any more of your four legged friends. I can tell you how they would have reacted thought, both paws would have shot out and they would have sat back on their haunches, they would have backed up then moved forward quickly again coming closer, then immediately backed up and turned away and turned back to see it again, possibly touching it with their snout or paws. There would have been several woofs with their heads moving slightly upwards during the encounter. Am I right? I have had doggies for all of my life up to the time I left for Asia............... Now I am sad. Cheers, johnw Good morning John, I have also had doggies all my life. We have not had one for several years, after our last one, Lucy, passed away. Would love to have another, unfortunately, it's just not in the cards right now. Pets are not cheap to take care of properly. Vet bills are something that are hard to swallow. However, both of my sisters have a dog each that I see on a regular basis. Today, I will visit with my older sister, and her rescue chocolate lab, Aggie. Monday, will see the other one, Grayce, a pitbull. I will take the brain with me and get a reaction from both of them! Will let you know how it goes. Jean
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