Hello beautiful people! How have you all been? It seems the year is already flying by, but one way or another this year will be one of change for me.
In the meanwhile, life keeps chugging on.
I saw this the other day while driving out to a work site (well, I was actually riding, so it was safe to snag this crappy picture). It's apparently a phenomenon called cloud iridescence, one I've never seen before. (You can find much cooler pictures of it than this)
Lately I've been digging in and around Chatfield State Park (Colorado), just about two hours south of home. We're digging a SHIT ton of holes to help the State Historic Preservation Office make new regulations about a buried soil that dates from 7,000 to 3,000 years old here on the Front Range. It's of an age to contain cultural deposits, so we've got to decide how to approach areas that include this soil when future projects impact them.
It's not a terrible place to work, but there aren't many sites there. Just a couple of historic buildings and one lithic scatter. That makes for a lot of digging holes with nothing in them, and to make matters worse the soil we're testing is literally as hard as concrete. I've been wailing in the ground with 15 pound, 5 foot rock bars and all-metal shovels in the snow for the first weeks of this year.
Time to get ready to get back at it!