In honour of tomorrow's field trip, here is a solitary rugose (horn) coral in a block of Tyndall stone in downtown Calgary! This one is from the late Ordovician, about 450 million years ago.

Horn corals are named for their horn-like shape; this is a cross section. They are common fossils in downtown Calgary and the Rockies. They went extinct in the end-Permian mass extinction, about 252 million years ago.

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossilfriday #fossils #rugosa #coral #alberta

#Rugosa #roses are garden rebels.
This one decided to climb up a fir tree & bloom up in it.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGarden #WhatsInMyGarden #Saanich #Gardeners #GardeningMastodon #Zone8 #YYJ #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #Flowers #PlantFlowers #plants #nature #PNW #botanical #PlantLovers #Wsanec #perennials #DisabledGardeners #DisabledPhotographers #photography #YYJphotographers #RoseLovers #ClimbingRoses

#SilentSunday

#Nature finds a way through man-made barriers.

#Pink #rugosa #roses bursting through black chainlink fence.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #flowers #Saanich #photography #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #ClimbingRoses #Freedom #Wsanec #YYJ #FragrantPlants #FlowersIdentification #PacificNorthwest

#Rugosa #rose tree
#Purple #lupine
#Phacelia
#RedCedar #SeedHeads

#WhatsInMyGarden #Zone8 #Saanich #YYJ #plants #VictoriaBC #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Spring #bloomscrolling #BackyardBotany #botanical

I was given a few #fossils brought back from the island of #Gotland. They are from the #Silurian period.

1 and 7 is #Rugosa
2 is #Trilobits
3 is #Brachiopods
4 is #Bryozoa
5 and 6 is #Cinoidea

#paleontology #geology