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Would love some easy to get too places to take my daughter around the Sherman area.

Well my youngest daughter has been really active as my "fossil buddy" the last month or so. I think she may have started something. You could have knocked me over with a feather yesterday when my oldest daughter (now 18) asked if we could go hunting. So off we went! I took her to a local stop in the Upper Cretaceous aged, Eagle Ford Group, Arcadia Park Formation. I was a little worried the spot may be played out as the youngest and I hit it about a month ago. But, it had rained so we tried it. While we were putting on our knee pads my daughter started spouting that she would find more teeth than me and that I was too old and tired to be effective anymore. Game on! We spent the better part of two hours crawling around sharing good companionship, some meaningful conversation, and just relaxing and enjoying one another. My day was absolutely made with just those things there. My daughter did quite well, finding a number of shark teeth including examples of Ptychodus whipplei and Squalicorax falcatus. She also scored a few fish teeth, several fish vertebrae, and a piece of shark coprolite. I was very pleased with her effort. I found about the same things and also found a gastropod and a piece of an ammonite, which I believe is part of a Prionocyclus. Who found the most? Well, so much for being old and tired! The time we had was outstanding. I include an image of our findings below. The first image is hers, the second mine. The third image is my attempt to show a site photo. It has 3 teeth in the image. See if you can find the third one. I apologize for the quality of the images. I think my camera is broken. I can't get that smudge out of the center.