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Hello dear sister Sney, it is good to have you here with us. I believe you will be blessed and a blessing here, ... Enjoy the fellowship...

hey Sney,thanx so much for the the friendship...indeed God is great....i cant even begin to explain my love for him.i'm Born again94days ago)so the relationship is still fresh and its kips and also wana help those who dont know him to make friends with him......hope you good and take care.God bless you in everything you do...TNX again :-)

meant 4days ago...Lol!

Thank you or adding me as a friend ღ SNEY ღ! What are you studying/reading in college?

 Oh, that's splendid series of study- I was science nerd from 13 on, 1st run through college was dual major in bio and geology since my main interest was marine paleontology; after Marines I went back for major in philosophy and fine art (pen & ink drawing). Did you see the group "The Beauty of Nature Created by God" here? Lots of nature photos, most from my backyard. Also, what part of UK is home?

Brb need to look up Farnborough, Hampshire, seems familiar from my couple of summers stomping around UK doing summer research projects. Oh what University are you studying at?

Ok, 6th Form college; ya know where you are now (quick wiki check), spent 2 days in town mostly at St. Michael's Abbey talking to an ancient monk who had made a lifetime study of the Northumbrian scriptoria manuscripts which was Research Project: "Cataloging Celtic Insular Manuscripts" 1979 Summer Research w/at University of Cambridge, Oxford University, Trinity College; Studied and catalogued the Celtic Insular Manuscripts, summer before had done the same for the Celtic Stone Crosses (Surveyed, sketched, photographed Celtic Stone Crosses in Ireland, Wales and Scotland). Had some great times stomping all around the UK.

Feel free to join the group, it's open membership.. any photos you have of nature from your side of pond feel free to post.

Lol, I was the most hated nerd in the state, owned all the science fairs from 8th grade on. Stuffy loner brat too, of course, all my spare time I was out in a woods collecting leaves, rocks, fossils, stomping through local creeks and swamps. One tomboy girlfriend was brave enough to go get muddy and dirty with me. Lol, Judy Ann Kuhn, still remember; I hated snakes, she loved them.

Snakes (and sharks) are the 2 creatures that just make me lose it completely. Snakes make me run into trees, and sharks I can walk (run) on water when I see them.

My Irish heritage I guess that snakes and I don't get along at all: even took a herp class so could tell which are harmless and beneficial and which are poisonous (have 3 species here, encounter with 1). Now I know what kind of snake it is after I run in place and stomp them into mush. Learned snorkeling and scuba diving years ago (kinda requirement for marine biologists): my view as to sharks is that I prefer to stay in places where I am at the top of the food chain; why I went marine paleobiology, fossils don't eat you.

Area where I grew up is rich in prehistoric marine deposits, especially coral reef ones, so that was primarily the fossils I collected growing up from 13-18, although a few land plants here and there from coal deposits. But coral reef ecology, both prehistoric and present has always been fascinating to me, although I am more into invertebrates than vertebrates.

Latest discussion in nature group is http://www.allaboutgod.net/forum/topics/creatures-from-other-places...

where I took my FWB of 2 years on a month trip May 2012 to Florida and the Caribbean to show her my old haunts of 15 years before I moved back to Ohio to take care of paents until their passing. She was studying (photography) here from Germany and had only seen the ocean once when little. She like it so much, when she married in November she went back for her honeymoon.

http://www.allaboutgod.net/forum/topics/creatures-from-other-places... is collecting fossil shark teeth

We did a lot of beachcombing to collect seashells, this is beach in Jamaica
http://www.allaboutgod.net/forum/topics/creatures-from-other-places...
(and next page)

Anyway, I guess I love the ocean since 3/4 of my life has been landlocked in northern forests and the plants and critters are completely different.

Ya, Florida & tropical islands over here are amazingly rich in life, hope to get back down in a year or so and just spend time on1 island, either Jamaica or Bahamas to see how the coral reefs are doing. Annea was in shock the entire trip since she was landlocked growing up in Stuttgart, Germany. Soon as their daughter is born in 2 months, they plan on starting weekend visits to coast over there.
  I normally spend a day every week collecting ad every few months a weekend camping at one of the better locales so I can hit it dawn to dusk,

Spring and early summer so far has been very rainy and cold so have only been out once, last month 17th. Cabin is about 100 miles from where I grew up and strata here are quite different- grew up in midst of mostly shallow sea/coral reef rocks of (nice Brit words: Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian) age; my woods, cabin is on the fringe of the coal mining area, so here its your Upper Carboniferous which is our Mississipian Period, so I've been working mostly in prehistoric swamp material, mostly plants.

Just 3 real goodies from the trip although lots of fragments. Just happened to throw pics in photos yesterday. Between layers of coal a lot of time is a thin layer of shale that has an iron based concretion (where sediment forms around a foreign object): if you crack it open you often get something like:

http://www.allaboutgod.net/photo/pecopteris-sp-fern?context=user

The shale itself often has nice specimens like:

http://www.allaboutgod.net/photo/asterophyllites-sp-horsetail?context=user
or

http://www.allaboutgod.net/photo/alleopteris-fern?context=user

Always nice to find stuff but half the fun is getting nice and dirty with a bit of coal dust smeared over clothes and skin!

Have been working on laying out a discussion of my own speciality in marine paleobiology; although I collect anything, my heart has always been with the trilobite, an extinct class of Arthropods. Part of it is the challenge of finding a relatively intact specimen instead of their molted carapace parts; also, they were the early apex predators. Anyway, will start posting photos and discussion on them during tonight. Rachel (UK) here on AAG raises "leafy stick bugs" wrote a splendid discussion on them, so I'm retaliating with my own "bugs". Need to finish section on ecology & reproduction then can start uploading.

Trils are from the earliest period of living things and went extinct as amphibians and small reptiles just got  started (predecesors of crabs, shrimp, crustacean, insects and such). Have a few dozen insects in amber and soft chalks, too many soft parts to easily fossilize. Do have a decent photo record of the insects in the woods here, especially butterflies since I planted lots of habitat for them. Same for general insects and spiders. Bit leery of spiders since we have several very poisonous native ones. Love looking at spider webs early morning when they sparkle with dew. Friend in high school always did science fair projects on wolf spiders, a type that doesn't build webs: besides local ones, he had a bunch of tarantulas in terrariums. Lol, Steve Ash, that was his name, one of three main competitors at local science fair. Fortunately he was in biology category and I was in geology so we pretty much always advance to regional, then state competition, also one of four of us (2 guys, 2 girls on the science quiz team, always had the hots both for Sally Eyman, she was chemistry and Deedra McDougal who was physics/astronomy). Too bad back then science honor students didn't fool around - I would have taken either quite seriously). Lol, we 4 took every single level of every science class from 13 on, from remedial to Advanced Placement College level. Anyway got the trilobites started in wee hours, will take rest of week to finish  then will start herbs.

Lol, finished my garden gnome setup today.

Hi,Sney! thank yoou for the amazing stories you shared.. ^_^

Stopping by to say hello. Blessings for Wednesday my sisXO