Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Another Fossil Hoard

Rocks on the western edges of Brooklyn were mostly piled there by people to harden the shore. These rocks are from elsewhere, upstate I believe. They aren’t the tumbled erratic deposits of the glaciers.

And some of them are littered with the remains of ancient seas.

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