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art by Serena Malyon 

“Erebor – A3, watercolour and gouache. My depiction of The Lonely Mountain (Erebor), from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Deep within the dwarven keep lies Smaug the dragon, perched upon his hoard of treasures. The smell of someone unfamiliar rouses him from sleep, but Bilbo stays hidden, watching.

Rivendell – A3, watercolour and acryla gouache. My depiction of Rivendell from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”

yall we went to the most beautiful lake spring today. LOOK at this water 😭

This account has been sharing old videos of the many decades of lava flows on Kilauea. Often that volcano will wake up after only a few months of inactivity when it does go quiet, so it probably won’t be long before they get new footage.

Here’s an incredible lava breakout. A crust of pahoehoe is fractured by the pressure of the lava behind it, and the lava spills out onto the surface. Watch how some of the other still-soft rocks nearby flex downwards as the new lava moves on top of them. Also watch how the videographer slowly retreats…

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Break on through…

i love cats. like we as a species just really go out of our way to obtain fat little house goblins in the hopes that they will occasionally acknowledge us

Notes on cartography by American cartographer, Erwin Raisz (1893-1968). So neat and precise. This makes me want to draw maps.

I think these are all from Raisz’s 1962 book, PRINCIPLES OF CARTOGRAPHY.

Peering back in time over 420 million years ago into the Silurian Period when the first land plants emerged. Pictured in the foreground are Baragwanathia and Zosterophyllum with their pinkish coloured sporangia for dispersing spores. More to come soon from this project with biologist and fellow fossil plant enthusiast Ken Kwak.

Happy Earth Day! Let’s take good care of this beautiful planet we call home, today and everyday 🌿

CLADISTICS ruined my life

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Finally got my new air compressor hooked up and we’re back in business on the fossil prep front. First up in the queue was the removal of the excess matrix and cleaning up on this Peronoceras subarmatum which I found on the Jurassic Yorkshire Coast a few months ago. I’ve been out of action on fossil prep for nearly 4 months so it’s nice to be back up and running