andrew on August 26th, 2008

Soon after we returned to England, we found out that our neighbors were moving back to California.  This was particularly sad because the kids had developed a close friendship with their daughter.  They went to the same school and loved to play together, especially enjoying jumping on the trampoline, swinging, and building fairy houses.

We went [...]

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andrew on March 4th, 2008

The sun was shining and the wind was blowing as I walked in the Dovedale yesterday.

Here I am at Lover’s Leap! The stone steps leading up to this outcrop contained myriad crinoid fossils. Apparently, this part of Derbyshire was part of a warm, shallow sea just north of the equator about 300 million [...]

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