The Tom Ridge
Environmental Center at the entrance to
Presque Isle, Lake Erie was the place we went to today with a fossil we found about 30 years ago. There was a fossil show there today, and anyone could bring a fossil to have the professor go over it and tell you what it was. Ours is 5-6" long and turned out to be a sponge fossil (
Clathrospongia) that lived around 364 million years ago in saltwater. The place we found it was in a shale rock bank where the fresh water cascaded over the top. No saltwater for many many 100's of miles.
A ride to the top of this tower and you can see over to Canada across Lake Erie on a clear day. Today was not that kind of day. Way too foggy, but you can see below the Ravine
Flyer roller coaster which is ranked as the 6
th best wooden coaster in the world.
The parking lot was busy yesterday. All the plants around the parking lot are native to the area.
An
excellent day for fishing, and taking pictures of
clouds.
Along our ride around the peninsula we come upon several folks flying kites, and just enjoying the beautiful warm day.
This gal was making HUGE bubbles. They were awesome floating through the air, and thoroughly enjoyed by the dogs.
The Robins are still building nests too.
We have a few of these wild Cherry trees.
On a really foggy morning the wild Honeysuckle is covered with dew.
On the upper trail these leaning trees will someday fall into the creek as the banks fall away with all the high water. On the ground are the seed pods from the Aspen trees.
On my daily walk with Tauqua our rescue dog, we pass several groundhog burrows. This guy popped out to say " Hello ". PS I think he needs to see a dentist
A poor tattered mushroom after the heavy rain.
My orange Azalea is almost ready to open. I'll post more pictures when it does.
A shot from our back yard as the water from the creek rises 6" in 4 hours.
I've been checking on the baby Titmice, and all looks well. They are so tiny. More pictures as they grow.
I'm not going to visit any blogs tonight. We are expecting more thunder storms, and I don't want to be on the computer if they come this way. 
So friendly they will waddle right over to your car the minute you stop, and I can't resist.
They eat out of your hand and actually are quite gentle.
Happy World Bird Wednesday everyone, and do click on over to http://pineriverreview.blogspot.com/ to see what Springman has done with this cool meme.
Saturday was a gorgeous day, and when you don't get that many you take in every minute. We took a ride to Lake Erie and watched the kite flyers. They were in the same area as those huge bubbles on my post Saturday,
A ride to the top of this tower and you can see over to Canada across Lake Erie on a clear day. Today was not that kind of day. Way too foggy, but you can see below the Ravine Flyer roller coaster which is ranked as the 6th best wooden coaster in the world.
The parking lot was busy yesterday. All the plants around the parking lot are native to the area.
An excellent day for fishing, and taking pictures of clouds.
Along our ride around the peninsula we come upon several folks flying kites, and just enjoying the beautiful warm day.
This gal was making HUGE bubbles. They were awesome floating through the air, and thoroughly enjoyed by the dogs.
More bubbles.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.
