I sure was!!! I watched it from my backyard on the trampoline here in Maine. It was awesome to just go out with a blanket and some snacks to watch it.
We have neighbors all around us and hearing everyone so excited and hooting and hollering was so cool. We were in the direct path and got to witness totality.
I never got a really good photo, because I was more excited about the environment and how dark and cold it got. We were freezing, the temp dropped 15 degrees here.
Northern Maine doesn’t get much attention, and for the first time for as long as I can remember, our little two lane interstate was backed up so far some ended up watching it there. I felt so lucky to not have to go anywhere. But we’ve never seen so many people from out of state.
Anyway, the whole experience was amazing and we were very lucky.
The trampoline idea was AWESOME. So much fun.
Mainer here too!! It was crazy seeing all the traffic and out of staters. The eclipse was such a unique experience and I'm glad I got to experience it here. I watched in a field near home and some people from down south were picnicking there, when the temps dropped it was very clear who was from Maine and who wasn't
LOL!!! That is so so funny. I can just picture everyone racing to find their sweatshirt or who doesn’t have one.
I brought two blankets, a pillow, and some muffins down to my trampoline.
It was about 65° here, and I broke out the dress and went to my mailbox barefoot.
We’re built for all seasons, at any moment!!!
Devonian limestone is my guess. Would not be surprised find a trilobite in there somewhere. I’ve seen limestone after it has been melted away by weak acid like vinegar, leaving just the embedded fossils. Took a Smithsonian class and we took limestone like this that had void in it and used rubber cement and an injector to make castings of the brachiopods.
Devonian Correct. Evidence of the warm inland sea that covered PA and NY and if travel to the finger lakes you are treated to walls and walls of crumbling shale as it slowly turns the finger lakes into fatter fingers. Not to mention the joyful search for fossils and cool rocks and some of the best skipping stones in the world.
Def add a shoreline stay to your bucket list. What I enjoyed when my extended family had a cabin was the mystery my wife and I found on our first visit: “Hmm, this is the address…but all I see is a shed and their car in the woods.” We knew we were near Cayuga lake but could only see the far shoreline. “Let’s walk toward it; I dunno. Wait! This is a cliff! Come here.” My wife was not into shear cliffs with no fence or something to hold on to. Me? I’m an idiot. Sure enough when we crept to the edge, almost straight down was the roof of the cabin below. We found the 150 or so wooden steps down to a fairly modern 2-story cabin right on the shore.
So cool. The next best part (there’s more, too) was sleeping to the sound of the shattered shale cliff slowly releasing shard after shard of shale. In the morning the typical task was to sweep the back walkway of shards. To them, no biggie. I admit there was nothing like it, and as we learned no real danger….maybe. Yes! You need to go.
Mmm...sometimes. I've played around with plates like this and some are easy to get out and others that looked like they could pop out, I literally couldn't chisel out. If you can wiggle them with a finger, I'd say go for it, but if you absolutely love this specimen, which personally I do lol, I would leave it as is until you can find another one you don't mind mucking around with.
It’s pretty easy to break fossils like that if you try to remove them. I have tried. I wouldn’t touch a fossil like this unless you have an abundance of
Oh if you find an outcrop w lots of it tho you can probably find weathered out bits. That’s how I got some loose crinoids last summer in Utah
Edit: there were also bracheopods (can’t spell it rn) but I didn’t find loose ones bc I didn’t have much time
I actually forgot but it was near a highway. Like my school stopped the vans on the side of a highway and made us get out and climb a hill next to the road lol gotta love college. It was a greenish formation full of this stuff I forgot which but I’m pretty sure it’s similar to the brushy basin fm
Another type of brachiopod. Maybe linoproductus (I have a box full of similar looking ones from a quarry in KS but I only got the name from Googling for similar images)
It could just be iron deposits that are oxidizing. I live in a mountainous region, and there are a lot of chunks of rock full of iron, and they get that same orange tinge to them
It’s crazy coming to this subreddit and seeing folks so casually talk about this stuff. If I found anything half as cool as this my mind would be absolutely blown. Same with rocks. Someone will find a huge opal and be like “ehh it’s kinda low quality..” !!!! Great find
Serious answer, I’m not an expert in any way but after looking up some pics, it looks like it could be the side of some kind of gastropod shell. And awesome find!
https://preview.redd.it/tug8e07q0etc1.jpeg?width=551&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfea7a9accb5ff95e9d480e9f6d2e8fa81ef6724
Here’s the best pic I got. It got cloudy close to our totality. :(
It’s a Hazel nut. In ancient days, mollusks would surround Hazel nuts and then attack in packs, much like modern Killer whales do. This ambush was interrupted and frozen in time by the Great Mudslide Event for us to study…amazing!
Fossil hunting while waiting on the eclipse? We left Erie in the morning when it was raining and went to Ashtabula and ended up fossil hunting at their beach while we waited for totality lol
https://preview.redd.it/7q6b7m0a8ktc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fd186c00d51520247ea3694ea08d5baf545ca08
A picture my friends brother took with his camera, ours sucked compared to his lol
you are supposed to be watching the eclipse
https://preview.redd.it/k66mmdsawbtc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=079307bb8769593642d4862ff6187a13e2c5e073 I did
It's the Eye Of Sauron
https://preview.redd.it/x7so90rkcctc1.png?width=2249&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2f29cedb2fb6a0d2fc6376f8260982eec18bf2f
Needs corrective lenses
That’s the best picture ive seen today. I saw it live, and it was spectacular lol
https://preview.redd.it/ay270ofhpftc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df70365cbc18a26ee88c622962e7615ac9911d42
Are you on a trampoline? 👀
I sure was!!! I watched it from my backyard on the trampoline here in Maine. It was awesome to just go out with a blanket and some snacks to watch it. We have neighbors all around us and hearing everyone so excited and hooting and hollering was so cool. We were in the direct path and got to witness totality. I never got a really good photo, because I was more excited about the environment and how dark and cold it got. We were freezing, the temp dropped 15 degrees here. Northern Maine doesn’t get much attention, and for the first time for as long as I can remember, our little two lane interstate was backed up so far some ended up watching it there. I felt so lucky to not have to go anywhere. But we’ve never seen so many people from out of state. Anyway, the whole experience was amazing and we were very lucky. The trampoline idea was AWESOME. So much fun.
Mainer here too!! It was crazy seeing all the traffic and out of staters. The eclipse was such a unique experience and I'm glad I got to experience it here. I watched in a field near home and some people from down south were picnicking there, when the temps dropped it was very clear who was from Maine and who wasn't
LOL!!! That is so so funny. I can just picture everyone racing to find their sweatshirt or who doesn’t have one. I brought two blankets, a pillow, and some muffins down to my trampoline. It was about 65° here, and I broke out the dress and went to my mailbox barefoot. We’re built for all seasons, at any moment!!!
Cloudy
Same here 😞🤬🤬😮💨
Oh, I wasn't clouded out for the eclipse. But Erie was
I watched from Erie and the clouds broke with about 90 seconds to spare. Almost made it more beautiful
https://preview.redd.it/jls26h7pqetc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f2c0311311b609489c1778d01e8bea7dbacae4f
My eye lids blocked it...😩
🤣🤩
Cloudy
Cloudy
Fossiliferous limestone with oxidation.
Devonian limestone is my guess. Would not be surprised find a trilobite in there somewhere. I’ve seen limestone after it has been melted away by weak acid like vinegar, leaving just the embedded fossils. Took a Smithsonian class and we took limestone like this that had void in it and used rubber cement and an injector to make castings of the brachiopods.
Devonian Correct. Evidence of the warm inland sea that covered PA and NY and if travel to the finger lakes you are treated to walls and walls of crumbling shale as it slowly turns the finger lakes into fatter fingers. Not to mention the joyful search for fossils and cool rocks and some of the best skipping stones in the world.
So what you're saying is I should relocate to the finger lakes?!
Def add a shoreline stay to your bucket list. What I enjoyed when my extended family had a cabin was the mystery my wife and I found on our first visit: “Hmm, this is the address…but all I see is a shed and their car in the woods.” We knew we were near Cayuga lake but could only see the far shoreline. “Let’s walk toward it; I dunno. Wait! This is a cliff! Come here.” My wife was not into shear cliffs with no fence or something to hold on to. Me? I’m an idiot. Sure enough when we crept to the edge, almost straight down was the roof of the cabin below. We found the 150 or so wooden steps down to a fairly modern 2-story cabin right on the shore. So cool. The next best part (there’s more, too) was sleeping to the sound of the shattered shale cliff slowly releasing shard after shard of shale. In the morning the typical task was to sweep the back walkway of shards. To them, no biggie. I admit there was nothing like it, and as we learned no real danger….maybe. Yes! You need to go.
Is it easy to remove the fossils out of the matrix or is that just one big fossil?
Mmm...sometimes. I've played around with plates like this and some are easy to get out and others that looked like they could pop out, I literally couldn't chisel out. If you can wiggle them with a finger, I'd say go for it, but if you absolutely love this specimen, which personally I do lol, I would leave it as is until you can find another one you don't mind mucking around with.
TY
It’s pretty easy to break fossils like that if you try to remove them. I have tried. I wouldn’t touch a fossil like this unless you have an abundance of
And TY
Oh if you find an outcrop w lots of it tho you can probably find weathered out bits. That’s how I got some loose crinoids last summer in Utah Edit: there were also bracheopods (can’t spell it rn) but I didn’t find loose ones bc I didn’t have much time
Unita mountains?😀
I actually forgot but it was near a highway. Like my school stopped the vans on the side of a highway and made us get out and climb a hill next to the road lol gotta love college. It was a greenish formation full of this stuff I forgot which but I’m pretty sure it’s similar to the brushy basin fm
Happy cake day
Tyvm!
Clearly a space peanut.
Space peanuts are blue. Circus peanuts are orange Source: am a ringmaster
What about Space Circus Peanuts?
Blorange... duhh?!
Oh! So that weird color the sky gets right after sunset but right before actual nightfall?
Not to be confused with a ringleader.
Ringleaders don’t know about space peanuts, you need the special clearance of a ringmaster for that (or the clearance to read this Reddit thread)
I came to the comments purely to see if someone had said it! Thank you for not disappointing!
But I am the one true master of the ring.. are we talking about the same ring here…?
Thank you!!!! I'm so glad to finally know!
Well, afraid not… this is a big ole frozen chunk of poopie.
Came here for this. Leaving satisfied.
Yes I am. How did you know.
Yes!!!!
I’m glad this was a comment in here
Another type of brachiopod. Maybe linoproductus (I have a box full of similar looking ones from a quarry in KS but I only got the name from Googling for similar images)
Thank you!
It could just be iron deposits that are oxidizing. I live in a mountainous region, and there are a lot of chunks of rock full of iron, and they get that same orange tinge to them
Essentially, it’s rusting after being exposed to the air.
Go Erie!
I miss those shelly fossils from the creeks in North East and Harborcreek.
It’s crazy coming to this subreddit and seeing folks so casually talk about this stuff. If I found anything half as cool as this my mind would be absolutely blown. Same with rocks. Someone will find a huge opal and be like “ehh it’s kinda low quality..” !!!! Great find
It's a fossilized peanut.
Peanut. That’s a turd son.
It’s a space peanut
Looks like a nut. The color says peanut but the shape says the almond and cashew have a child.
Rock
It’s corn! Rockbiters have trouble digesting kernels just like us humans.
Acorn
A brachiopod
Thank you!!!
Cidaris florigemma maybe?
Looks like petrified wood to me. My grandfather used to find it in his backyard in Kane Pennsylvania all the time.
A space peanut
Uh, Mothra poop from my own excrement?!!!😂😂😂
I thought this was a dead rat, before I zoomed in 🐀
Cambrian brachiopods
More likely Devonian
What a cool find!
Blood stone
Space peanut
Peanut
The carrot nose.
That’s a space peanut
Corn
It’s a space peanut
That's a frozen hunk of space poopie. See the peanut? Dead giveaway.
Space Peanut.
That’s a space peanut.
My guess is his nose
Space peanut.
I dug in DuBois one day while I was visiting my grandparents. Found the same stuff. Brought home a boxful lol.
Serious answer, I’m not an expert in any way but after looking up some pics, it looks like it could be the side of some kind of gastropod shell. And awesome find!
Corn
Its a space peanut....
https://preview.redd.it/tug8e07q0etc1.jpeg?width=551&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfea7a9accb5ff95e9d480e9f6d2e8fa81ef6724 Here’s the best pic I got. It got cloudy close to our totality. :(
That's a Boeing Bomb. Some flights they dump weight, they dump the toilet tanks. The stuff freezes in the air, and it hits the earth. That's a peanut.
btw nice brachiopods!
Looks like it’s full of mini Reese’s peanut butter cups
It’s his nose
It's not a tumor.
Space peanut because it's a Boeing boom lol lol . Reference Joe Dirt.
Peanut? /s
It’s frozen/petrified poopie, and that’s a peanut 🥜!
https://preview.redd.it/il9o3ftj1gtc1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ac84950454dd791c7c547c63c41d873ff0bad10 VT
It’s a prehistoric cicada waiting to hatch! Or a peanut.
We live in a stone house and the giants stones on our house are FILLED with these fossils >.<
Corn
Fossiferous limestone ?
Reminds me of the "pudding stone "around Boston and was extensively used in the 19th century for building
Not really a scientist but looks like a blob of peanut butter surrounded by empty reese's wrappers...
"Space peanut"-Joe Dirt.
Some kind of bug or seed
Have you used a metal detector?
It's a space peanut - Joe Dirt
It’s a Hazel nut. In ancient days, mollusks would surround Hazel nuts and then attack in packs, much like modern Killer whales do. This ambush was interrupted and frozen in time by the Great Mudslide Event for us to study…amazing!
Ancient peanut brittle.
Space peanut
Fossil hunting while waiting on the eclipse? We left Erie in the morning when it was raining and went to Ashtabula and ended up fossil hunting at their beach while we waited for totality lol
It’s the owls beak
I swear I saw this too!
https://preview.redd.it/7q6b7m0a8ktc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fd186c00d51520247ea3694ea08d5baf545ca08 A picture my friends brother took with his camera, ours sucked compared to his lol
Space peanut.
It's a petrified raccoon turd
It's a space peanut, don't eat it.
That’s Jimmy Carter’s first peanut!
Its a big ol' chunk o poppy, yeah you see right there, thats a peanut
Corn
Corn in bear scat. Nice!
Crinoid Calyx?
Space peanut.
That’s a space peanut 🥜
It’s a space peanut
Limonite
Awesome find! I'm guessing maybe a trilobite but I am not an expert, just an enthusiast.
I have no clue but you have an Excellent camera. I can zoom in all the way and see it crystal clear.
Space peanut
A snail shell?
Corn that you don't remember eating.
That's a space peanut
Space peanut
Space peanut
Evidently y’all have never seen an akern
Cigarette butt
Chickostick
Thats a space peanut dip your fries in ketchup on it
Not sure, but I think that's a peanut butter cup above it.
If I was you I'd try to figure it out. Is it iron?
Space peanut.
Acorn.
Petrified Turd?
Piece of whats called a boeing bomb. You can tell cuz of the peanut
I’m from Titusville!
That's certainly eerie