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Published: 2008-01-01 04:06:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 414; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 16
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lovely flatbed rocks under this waterway.......no chance of walking the edges here. there's a lovely beaver dam further up but no fossils here. just flatheads and snapper turtles.......can't wait till spring!Related content
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thanx...it IS gorgeous! i need to get out there and get some good summer shots but it's not the easiest to access this time of year.
thanx for the comment!
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this is in kansas...off of HWY 59 coming into Atchison.....
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Dammit. *live in Britain*
I do rather envy you for living near somewhere so beautiful
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it took me YEARS to finally see the beauty that's there........amazing i'm so stubborn to have seen it before! and Britain has lots of gorgeous places!! i've seen works by some of my friends on here...especially Wendy........thanx though.....it is very pretty here at times!
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Britain does have many lovely places, there are even some quite local to where I am but we're currently in the grey-wet-meh stage of the year so nothing really looks it's best. And we've not had snow/ice like that for some years now.
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our weather has been so odd this year.......lots of rain this summer...causing floods.......then this winter we just had some tornados!
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Tornados?! Good grief. We had flooding this summer as well, one of the worst hit places although fortunately we're halfway up a large hill so didn't get too badly affected. No true summer to speak of, and a rather meh winter. A few millimetres of patchy snow on one day so far but that's it.
(Just realised, long message about the weather. Very 
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lol...i love weather! we had massive floods this summer as well...now record snow falls....ice storms...and NOW tornadoes! has been a very moody year! but? means more mushrooms come spring to see!
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Yeah, one advantage of the wet over here is some spectacular fungi on old trees. One thing I miss that we don't get much here are spectacular thunder storms, with lightning crashing around you. The best one I've ever been in was in Germany, some years back.
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here in our summers...when the corn and wheat is almost ready to harvest we'll get some incredible storms as well. the sky turns almost green and the lightening is actually purple! i was a kid and once saw lightening shooting inside a rainbow arch....was like it was tunneling it or something.
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That sounds absolutely gorgeous. We've more in the way of sheep fields round here, although we're only a short way from the Pennines so it's a bleak beauty more than anything.
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i almost prefer the quieter to the more extravegant........i love sheep!
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And sheep...well, it's unnerving when you realise one is stood above you due to a quirk in the local architecture and is eyeballing you. Sheep can be unexpectadly menacing just by standing there.
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hehe...it's the interesting eyes they have. hehe
and agreed about the dusting of snow........helps to show off what has been covered by foliage in the spring/summer/fall.........
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Yeah, they have those odd pupils the same as goats. But there is just something slightly unnerving about being loomed over by a herbivorous creature covered in wool.
It does, although the penines run more to heather fern and grass with the odd stark tree than anything else. What's the area around you like?
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my area is mostly flat farming land...corn and wheat ...some beans or tobacco. we have small wooded patches that i'm constantly tramping around in.......lots of creeks and one of the US's largest rivers right down the road from me. right now we're frozen...some snow/ice.......the creeks are finally down so i've been hiking up them for fossils and neat rocks to add to my over-flowing rock garden....
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Fossils? Neat! We're technically semi-urbanised, but a half hour walk out will have you by the huge dam which was recently done up so there's a path around most of it and the whole surrounding area is partially-wooded farm land. Mostly livestock, the occasional field of wheat or cabbages. 
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haha...'wet with a side order of soggy'....that's great. i had to go today back to my fossil bed since we're getting snow tonight and all day tomorrow.......
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The nearest place to us that has fossils that I can think of is Whitby, or Robin Hood's bay which are both coastal whereas we're inland. The only thing they used to dig up around us was gannister, a type of clay (or sandstone, definitions vary) which they mined out of the area and used in the steel making process.
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ahhhh.....where i find my fossils and teeth at there are several different layers of rock...from slate to limestone to a conglomerate and even an almost claylike type.......u can stand and count 9 different layers of rock types in one area alone....
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Another really nice piccy... I'd love to see piccys of turtles
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working on it....about to post my soft shell babies........
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Awwwww I can't wait to see
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it's just a mystical fairie world when it gets this way.....so beautiful...delicate.....and deadly!
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definately a new favorite spot to irritate people on the hwy at...lol
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Turtles are scary. Beautiful photo! The weird colours in the ice are intriguing.
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awww i LOVE turtles!!! i've had so many as pets.........i've been told? my 'soul lives with turtles'........by a Native Sage........was fascinating to hear that
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thank you! this area was a new find near the end of the summer for me.....a beautiful spot right off a main road!
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Well, very nice find then
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This looks absolutely beautiful! It's a real shame that ice and snow aren't warm.......
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i was telling djberry earlier how water leaves me in awe.......u can move it with u'r hand with no problem but it can move a whole TOWN with no problem also
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... and as a little side mention - no life would be possible on this planet without it!!!
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thanx! i can't wait till spring to show some more of this location
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definately! not sure if u can tell really with this image but there's a wonderful ledge of rock that forms the waterfall...u can actually crawl up under it.....lots of great blocks of flatrock to walk on........i found one of my baby red eared turtles up this creak.
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How cool! Can you get images from behind the falls?
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not yet...they're basically inaccessable at the moment.....but this summer i'll make a 'special path' just for me and my every graceful son to get to them so i can. i've some images earlier this year...i'll post the 'before/after winter' shots of them.......gotta FIND them first though...lol (i've 4 stacks of cd's....over 400)
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lol, you sound like me, I have boxes of cd's of stock, friends, just everyday shots, to many!
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