Gem Tree Rock Shop
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The Gem Tree Rock Shop was real. It was a local landmark on U.S. Highway 12 in #NorthwestIndiana during what is now known as the Golden Age of Rockhounding (1946-1972). The shop was closed when the property was bought by the Department of the Interior, NPS
Pinned
Found art on the beach, framed. #LakeMichigan #GreatLakes
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"A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science... The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member of Haidomyrmecinae—an extinct subfamily that only lived during the Cretaceous..."
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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The oldest ant ever discovered found fossilized in Brazil
A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24....
www.eurekalert.org
April 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science... The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member of Haidomyrmecinae—an extinct subfamily that only lived during the Cretaceous..."
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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the bee poem buzzes
until the window is opened
until the window is opened
April 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
the bee poem buzzes
until the window is opened
until the window is opened
Neat
When you hate someone, but need to bring them back a gift from Hawaii
March 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Neat
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January 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Primo beachcombing⬇️
I found this little chap hiding behind some old wooden planks. There were a lot of people on the foreshore, but everyone else had missed him.
He’s a modern Hindu offering, Swami Narayan, an 18th-century ascetic from Uttar Pradesh and founder of the Swaminarayan Hindu sect and movement.
He’s a modern Hindu offering, Swami Narayan, an 18th-century ascetic from Uttar Pradesh and founder of the Swaminarayan Hindu sect and movement.
January 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Primo beachcombing⬇️
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A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life | Helen Sullivan
A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life | Helen Sullivan
It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, a sea anemone. But even now, I find it difficult to resist
In her book Theatres of Glass, Rebecca Stott writes about the Victorian craze for home aquariums – which swept London in the 1850s, with people taking…
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:01 PM
A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life | Helen Sullivan
Yesterday, Lake County Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) ⬇️
#IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
#IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
December 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Yesterday, Lake County Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) ⬇️
#IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
#IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
September 2024
Chicago inside⬇️ #IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
Chicago inside⬇️ #IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
December 9, 2024 at 9:46 AM
September 2024
Chicago inside⬇️ #IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
Chicago inside⬇️ #IndianaDunes
#LakeMichigan #GreatLakes #Indiana #NorthwestIndiana #NWI #TheRegion #The219 #HoosierTwitter
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They are very pretty.
November 30, 2024 at 8:54 AM
They are very pretty.
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Happy 138th birthday to Dorothy Richardson Buell, founding member of Save the Dunes whose advocacy led to the protection of our precious Indiana Dunes wildspaces! A short #Conservation and #Indiana history 🧵
December 1, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Happy 138th birthday to Dorothy Richardson Buell, founding member of Save the Dunes whose advocacy led to the protection of our precious Indiana Dunes wildspaces! A short #Conservation and #Indiana history 🧵
Found art on the beach, framed. #LakeMichigan #GreatLakes
December 1, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Found art on the beach, framed. #LakeMichigan #GreatLakes