What’s that? You didn’t know it WAS Earth Science Week? No worries. You have until October 18 to celebrate and this Earth Science Week website is chock full of ideas on how to get started.
We Burnses celebrated at Purgatory Chasm, a quarter-mile long gash in the surface of the planet that happens to be located near where we live. The chasm is believed to have formed when melted glacial waters burst from its foundations 14,000 years ago. Now it is the main attraction of the Purgatory Chasm State Reservation and a heckuva lot of fun to hike through. If you are very brave (which I am not), you can even poke around in the caves formed when giant slabs and boulders of disrupted granite re-settled themselves in the chasm. Sadly, I didn’t bring my camera to the Chasm.
But I did bring my camera to the top of Lenox Mountain, which turned out to be another fine place to contemplate the Earth:
© Loree Griffin Burns
And now that you know where I’ve been for the past few days, I’ll show you where I am going:
© Loree Griffin Burns
Only three weeks left to make the bee book perfect!