Alberta Amber
Check around the visible coal seams in Drumheller, Starland County, anywhere in Alberta really, and you'll probably find some Alberta Amber. Generally small pieces, the size of a pea or smaller, it's brittle and readily crumbles (so you have to be careful), but it does show some beautiful colors...
It could be heated, pressed, sealed in resin to make some interesting jewelry and rings (they do this to the lower grade Baltic amber), but Alberta classes it as a fossil and so collecting is forbidden. Shame. If it were coal, or oil and gas, or simply in coal, you could collect all you wanted and burn it, no problem, but the collecting of it to appreciate is prohibited by law.
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Flood Trees
I wondered at the trees, the branches that started beneath the ground, the obviously planted forest, odd, and then I remembered the flood a couple of years ago, the trees captured the silt, raised the level of the ground, and those branches nearest died off.
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Clerks on Phones
And a new thing I've noticed, at the convenience store, or the liquor store, picking up cigarettes or vodka, clerks that complete the entire transaction without letting go of their phone or speaking to you, you speak, tell them what you want, they get it, ring it up, take your money and make change, all while gibbering in a foreign language to the invisible, irrelevant other. I catch the eye of another older gentleman, he's thinking the same thing:
"Unbelieveable, isn't it?" he tells me. I only nod, I don't want to interrupt the clerk...
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Pennies for a Quarter
Spotted this at the flea market today. What can I say? "I remember when..."
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