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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 28th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 28th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 28th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 28th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 28th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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I made a drive down to a creek in Grayson County yesterday morning. Grayson County has had several inches of rain in the last couple of weeks, and I wanted to see what that might have uncovered in one of my favorite spots. After my misadventure with sticker vines on my last visit to a creek in this area, I was armed with leg and arm chaps, but I didn't think I would need them for this spot, and sure enough, even though it's also more grown up than the last time I visited, the chaps stayed in my backpack. There was a lot more water in the creek than the last time I was here. The water covered part of the gravel bars still, and the parts of the gravel bars nearest the water were still wet, so very dark and harder to spot fossils on, but I still found plenty. I do love this spot. Here are some in situ photos.
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - June 7th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - May 20th
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From the album: Grayson County creek - May 20th
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I hadn't been out fossil hunting lately. We've been getting enough rain to make me wonder how high the water level in creeks would be, plus spring fishing is so good on Cedar Creek Lake, where I live, that on days where I don't spend a couple of hours on the bicycle, I've just been going fishing. But now we've had a couple of weeks without much rain, so I'd been wanting to make a trip back to Grayson County. I had a doctor appointment in Dallas Friday morning, so I decided I would leave from there and make the drive to Grayson County. It was 10:30 am before I reached this day's creek, rapidly approaching the heat of the day, so I knew this would be a short visit to the creek. It was hot and sunny Friday, and I got reminded just how much heat you feel from those gravel bars when you're on knees and elbows. By shortly after 1:00 pm, I was cooked and ready to make the drive home. But this part of the creek is so much more grown up than when I was last there, I had a tough time getting out of the creek without getting torn up by briars and tree limbs. I ended up looking like I had been on the short end of a fight with a wildcat. I was already carrying leg chaps, but just never stopped to put them on. I've found some old kevlar arm chaps too. I'm going to start making myself wear both when traversing the thick stuff from now on. 71 year old skin just seems to suffer a lot more damage in these situations than young skin does. But as always in Grayson County, I did find some fossils. Here are photos of some, just as they lay when I found them. Each of those last two photos have two teeth in them. It's not often that I find two teeth that close together.
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From the album: Grayson County creek - May 20th
