Author Archives: Beverly
Wonderful Fall Hunt!
YES I am still alive and still fossil hunting and giving fossil tours! What a year! Sooooo many fossil hunts and just no time to record them! Soooo many AWESOME finds and maybe this winter I will have time to share! But just so you know there are LOTS of fossils here in Fillmore County, … Continue reading
Earth Day Private Hunt with CAVE!
Earth Day 2017 was absolutely perfect for a private hunt here in Bluff Country. The skies were bright blue and April temps were into the 70s. This group was from Rochester, a mentor with two older children. We started out going through the fossil gardens in my yard to accustom their eyes to the shapes … Continue reading
Eagle Bluff Skills School April Classes
What beautiful weather we had for these two first fossil hunts of the season through the Eagle Bluff Skills School! Friday was our traditional afternoon class and Saturday was our first morning class. The morning classes are great for those who want to buy one of the three fossil hunting maps I have compiled for … Continue reading
Trilobite Identification Rock & More
You should be able to right click and copy and paste this onto your desktop for close examination–open with Paint. So often we see pictures and photos of prepared specimens, however identifying them while in matrix is a whole new adventure. I had asked Caleb (Midwestpaleo.com on the sidebar–everything trilobite!) to take the time to do … Continue reading
Coco Says VOTE!
Coco is a 28 year old wild burro adopted through the BLM Adopt-A-Horse-Or-Burro program in 1989. He has more ribbons and trophies than most horses. He has been a wonderful ambassador for the Program and donkeys in general his entire life. In my home, the policy is that if you don’t vote you don’t get … Continue reading
Just for FUN! Halloween 2016
I LOVE decorating for Halloween! The challenge is to do it inexpensively, so I thought I would share a few of the scenes and a few of my tips. 🙂 Just an old garden stake and some leftover quarter inch wood painted up. The zombie coming out of the ground I made with a scape … Continue reading
Fossil Camp!
Want to spend a day, a weekend, or a week immersed in fossil hunting the most fossiliferous county in Minnesota and enjoy the amenities that Bluff Country has to offer? Half-Day Fossil Hunt – $40 per person A morning or afternoon fossil hunt that starts with a tour of the fossil gardens at Whispering Winds … Continue reading
Eagle Bluff September Fossil Tour 2016
It was a beautiful day to fossil hunt with temps in the high 60s, very little humidity and sunshine! A group of 9 students boarded the Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center bus and trucked on over to Whispering Winds, Spring Valley, to start their fossil hunt. Participants included a retired WSU prof (PapaDave on TFF), … Continue reading