So, cranking up the way-back machine, here are the first three photos from the box beneath the bed. I have placed them behind the cut:
February or March 1996. Little Kettle Creek, Wilkes Co., Georgia. Looking for Ice-Age fossils (Late Pleistocene). It was a cloudy, windy day. The air was cold. The water was freezing. I was a mere 31-years old.
Autumn (?October) 1997. I was at Columbus College in Columbus, Georgia preparing a mosasaur skeleton from Kansas (Platecarpus cf. P. planifrons). Here, though, I'm goofing off in the lab with an alligator skull.
Again, Autumn '97 at Columbus College. Sitting in the hallway behind the vert paleo' lab with a plaster cast of a medium-sided mosasur skull (Tylosaurus proriger) from the Kansas chalk.
Not sure just what you'll be getting next. Maybe the Algonquin Hotel in NYC, July '97. We'll see.
February or March 1996. Little Kettle Creek, Wilkes Co., Georgia. Looking for Ice-Age fossils (Late Pleistocene). It was a cloudy, windy day. The air was cold. The water was freezing. I was a mere 31-years old.
Autumn (?October) 1997. I was at Columbus College in Columbus, Georgia preparing a mosasaur skeleton from Kansas (Platecarpus cf. P. planifrons). Here, though, I'm goofing off in the lab with an alligator skull.
Again, Autumn '97 at Columbus College. Sitting in the hallway behind the vert paleo' lab with a plaster cast of a medium-sided mosasur skull (Tylosaurus proriger) from the Kansas chalk.
Not sure just what you'll be getting next. Maybe the Algonquin Hotel in NYC, July '97. We'll see.
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Is that the closest you've ever gotten to an alligator?
Nope. I've been quite close to alligators, both living and dead, on numerous occassions. For one thing, I own a large gator skull of my own (purchased in the French Market in NOLA). In college, I dissected a medium-sized (three-four foot) alligator. I've handled young live alligators. The only sort of disturbing alligator encounter I ever had, though, was snorkeling in a crystal-clear spring in Florida back in 1985, hoping to see manatees, when I came upon two large adult alligators moving along the bottom, maybe ten feet below me.
You know, you've been leading a really cool life.
I can't deny, it has its moments.
The closest I've probably been to an alligator was watching Lake Placid. Or passing one at 70 miles per hour on I-95 to Orlando.
I like to see just about anyone's goofier side but I agree as well.
Not quite. I'm May '64. Which puts you nearer my sister, I think.
I would have, only I opted for a warp that placed me at -02, instead.
I always thought you were a 70's child like me.
Thank you. But. I should point out, that was me nine and ten years ago.
!!! they are wonderful!! Thank you for posting them :)
Also, you kinda have an Amber Benson/Tara from Buffy vibe going on here. I think it's the eyes, looking so intense and mischievous!
This was spooky. I have a picture of an old gf which looks remarkably like this. According to reports, she has fared the last ten years with remarkably less grace than you. Damn, was 1997 really ten years ago? Crap.
You have this remarkable ability to smile and yet seem palpably menacing. Like an orangutan "smiling" to let you see the teeth its going to use to chew your face off. That is, incidentally, a compliment.