A hunter-gatherer theater for living: mounds, the highest 70 ft, semicircular banks, wooden post circles. My obsession: grindstones for nuts, seeds, meat, and roots of aquatic plants, brought from across the Mississippi Basin to this stone-free site. Poverty Point in Louisiana. www.povertypoint.us

Port Hudson in Louisiana where the Union got control of the Mississippi after a long brutal siege. The combination of full Stars and Stripes with half tattered Confederate flag was something I'd not seen before.

The Mississippi River at night

The Tennessee River in the late afternoon sun. Road trip happenstances.

Drove into Glasgow, Kentucky this afternoon as the town celebrated Veteran's Day. Simple, heartfelt, moving ceremony. Poor pic because it felt inappropriate.

For Superb Owl Day. Tagging a baby barn owl. Owl hole high on a barn. Both in Wiltshire, England.

A lovely surprise. A Japanese New Year's spread delivered by a friend. A reminder of the importance of this day for the Japanese.

Sun rising on a drive through Kentucky horse country on a misty December morning. No, no horses, they are too valuable to be out to grass.

Sycamore on a glorious November day in the central Bluegrass of Kentucky.

The gleanings from a twenty-minute stroll round my neighborhood in Lexington, KY. It's been a glorious Fall.

Welcome Godfrey @guillamin.bsky.social Godfrey is doing great work on John Dewey and hist and phil of science at the turn of the 20th c. Previously measurement. Professor at one of Mexico's major universities. #philsci #histsci #histSTM

Late to Anomalies: Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology (2017). Loving it, perhaps because it's bio after bio, like looking at lists of names on memorials. 100 prior to affirmative action in the 70s. How could men have still looked askance in the 60s?