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For the better part of a year I have been meaning to meet up with Tony @Peat Burns and do some fossil collecting. I have never met him before but we have PM’d on numerous occasions and he has helped me with ID help on a few items. Here is Tony- Well today worked out well for a couple of reasons, first we set the clocks back one hour which made leaving a 5 am for the 4 hour drive not to bad. Second, I crossed into the Eastern time zone so when I drove back, I felt 1 hour younger. Third reason was that I had a trunk full of various fossils that I wanted to give him. The forth reason is that it was sunny and 37 degrees- good fossiling weather. And the last reason was that my wife was coming home from a 3 day trip to Puerto Rico to check on her father who is not doing good and it also allowed me to drive to the Hinsdale Oasis on I-294 and wait until her plane lands at O’Hare Airport, rather than heading home and driving back which would add another 90 miles onto the 450 that I already drove today. I am typing this report at the Oasis, these are great for travelers on our toll roads, you can get gas, all types of food and rest. So after 4 hours and 230 miles of driving I made it to the Paulding County Community Fossil Garden In Cecil, Ohio to do about 3 hours of collecting in piles of Middle Devonian Silica Shale that the LaFarge Quarry, which is right next to this area, dumps here from time to time for collectors and school groups to search thru. Here are some pics of the area and some of my finds that I took pictures of in the field. Here is a pic of Tony looking at something cool find. I found various brachiopods, corals and trilo-bits. More finds in next post.