We followed the route his family would have taken to his wife’s family cemetery to lay him to rest in 1878, and we met the distant cousin who still lives on the land where the cemetery sits (he said his family has been there so long he had to marry a yankee to make sure she wasn’t kinfolk 😂)
We drove through the hollers on either side of the area where his ancestor Christopher Columbus (!!) Roberson bought 30 acres of land sometime between 1850-1860. We have a good idea where it was because we looked at LiDAR scans last night
Man, sometimes all of the info you can access on the internet is just so unbelievably cool. A month ago Jonathan didn’t know much about his dad’s side of the family at all and today we visited the graves of his 4th great and 3rd great grandparents
I think I figured out exactly where Jonathan’s great great great great grandfather’s farm was is 1860 and today we’re off to see it and do some hiking on the western highland rim
I guess it makes sense that spending several hours looking at census records before bed would make me dream I was a census worker in rural Tennessee in the early 1900s
I really really want one of these
Have officially reached the point in the week where my highest priority to-do list item is figuring out where we’re going hiking this weekend
🌼 rue anemone 🌿
Thalictrum thalictroides
it is a coincidence that these three blooming buttercup-family flowers all happen to have 7 sepals, the number can vary from individual to individual
#nativeplants #ecoregion71
This is Lance. He may have overreacted a little bit to a leaf, but when you are two inches from the ground, anything could be a potential threat. 12/10 (TT: katiemhartline)
Chuck Borges is a whistleblower who reported the massive theft of our personal data from the Social Security Administration by Elon Musk and DOGE.
I am thinking he should probably have a lot more followers.
Thought the geology would be neat but wow - when we say we store the strategic petroleum reserve in "salt caverns" that means we actually carved giant cisterns into truly massive underground pillars of ancient rock salt that slowly flowed upward through layers of sedimentary rock like geologic taffy
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
More reading about salt domes and the strategic reserve - texascooppower.com/the-salty-hi...
www.atlasobscura.com/places/bryan...
These underground pillars of salt are salt domes - geologic structures that began as layers of salt deposited by a very early Gulf in the Jurassic (160+ million years ago). As miles of sediment accumulated above them, the salt slowly began to flow upward under pressure as a huge column
Thought the geology would be neat but wow - when we say we store the strategic petroleum reserve in "salt caverns" that means we actually carved giant cisterns into truly massive underground pillars of ancient rock salt that slowly flowed upward through layers of sedimentary rock like geologic taffy
Okay I'm doing the deep dive myself and so far I've learned that they're actually salt domes, and they're the result of something called salt tectonics. Stay tuned, this is already awesome and I will report back.
So fondly remember going to see this on our trip to Disney when I was in HS - my dad, ever the joker, decided to amp up the special effects by grabbing the top of my head
These are all so cool but I really love the shots with trees!
And they look incredible under a UV/black light!
Okay I'm going to need a geology deep dive on the gulf coast salt caverns
My absolute favorite is when I find a post describing my exact issue and someone commented like 10 years ago with the fix, and there's a decade's worth of folks chiming in to say "thanks, this still works"
Reddit remains undefeated as the best place to find advice written by real humans about the very specific and annoying problem you're dealing with. Already this week I've fixed a weird computer thing and found a replacement for my much-beloved and discontinued favorite sports bra.
Yay yay! Very excited to read what's next for Dorothy Gentleman, ship's detective - I re-read the short and wonderful Murder by Memory this past weekend so my own memories would be fresh for the sequel.
What is it about preposterous adventure movies??? The heart wants what the heart wants - to be not bored, and sometimes unreasonably pleased.
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
The time change is dumb but at least it’s good for deer - shifting the evening commute away from dusk reduces deer deaths from car crashes!
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
This year I’m going on a guided hike with retired geology professor Bran Potter, one with wildflower expert Mary Priestley, and one with two naturalists who know a ton about plant behavior. Jonathan’s doing an off-trail ranger-guided hike into the old growth forest of Savage Gulf
Registration is open for this year’s Trails and Trilliums - a weekend of guided hikes, talks, workshops, a native plant sale, and this year a keynote by David Haskell. April 10-12 in Beersheba Springs. It’s super fun and always feels like early summer camp for nature nerds, highly recommend
I’m assuming your motorcycle has a bread basket
