montana is the 4th largest state

Welcome back to me! Welcome back to fresh fruit and vegetables and sleeping in a real bed instead of a sleeping bag. Welcome back to not carrying a compass and a rock hammer and 3 liters of water around with me wherever I go. Welcome back, but there are no mountains here.

good food rocks

 So I'm leaving tomorrow for field school in Montana, which should be interesting and exciting and intense, but I've heard that the food will be miserable. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised? See you in August- I'll have to cook and eat lots of great things when I get back to make up for six weeks of camp food.

stone soup

(Photo credit P. Resor)

I love rocks in a similar way to how I love food. Working with either requires careful measurements and some degree of precision, as well as creativity and flexibility. Working with either can be infuriating or rewarding.

I suppose rocks and food are interrelated in some way- bedrock weathers into soil which acts as medium for plant growth which provides the produce we use as a starting point for a meal.

Anyway, this photo is of an awesome structure in the Catskills- rock layers got folded over the edge of a fault and one of the layers was mined out at some point, so you can actually walk inside the fold, and measure the strike and dip of the beds from within.