It IS a fossil…right?! Found in a stream in Fairfield County, Ohio. It looks so much different than the Ordovician stuff I find at places like Caesar Creek. I’m assuming they’re of marine origin but no idea the time period. I’ve looked online and haven’t been able to find anything that looks quite like this feller.
I feel like the idea of bipolar just being “depression” vs “manic” is not true in my experience. It’s more like a feeling of excited coherence/synchronicity (mania) that accelerates then collapses at speed into incoherence and confusion which leads to despair. The despair is what grinds me to a halt, and is the starting/end point of my cycles. The transition between coherence/incoherence seems to be where my most severe symptoms like hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms occur.
At least that’s how I feel about it today.
New to the hobby. Been seriously researching and searching various areas the last month with little success. Today, the leg work paid off!! Probably my 6th official outing with plenty of scouting in between.
Rick, my neighbor and resident artifact expert, said Hopewell point and after doing my own research online I’m inclined to believe him. Any opinions are welcome!
Love this hobby! Thanks 🙏 😊
There was a university building near where I grew up that was all windows. Many a bird met their end flying into those panes, as they are apt to do. Being a curious young feller, I would always stop by and see the damage when I was in the area. Mostly sparrows and robins, but one day I happened upon a beautiful ruby-throated hummingbird that had fell victim to the glass. Sad day for the bird but a happy day for an inquisitive middle schooler.
I gathered it up and took it to my kick-ass 7th grade science teacher (baked the class earthworm cookies every year kinda gal) and she gave me a cage to bury it in so I could retrieve the skeleton. The rest of the fragile bones had disintegrated by the time I remembered to exhume the poor thing, but the skull remained! Super fragile, haven’t touched it in over a decade.
Still one of my favorite “natural treasures” (as I like to call them).