I had a good day yesterday and today and finished Chapter 9 so posted Chapter 7. It’s really a reward for myself for finishing a chapter, besides the benefit of being able to go back and weave things into the story if I need to. Today’s bracket involves the color of the carpet in the Vanderbilt Library. No, I shouldn’t worry about it but my brother is at Vanderbilt so I figure he can just swing by and ask.
I also found this great photo of a geology exhibit in the Science Hall. I just don’t know when it was taken. More specifically, if there was a t-rex in the room in 1907 I am totally working that in. Hot-diggety.
Here’s a teaser of Chapter 7, with bracket.
One of the things Walker had missed, about more than anything, was the quiet hum of students working in the Vanderbilt library. Folks weren’t talking so much as just thinking real hard. It wasn’t quite the same since the fire of ’05, but the remodeling had provided a dense burgundy [check] carpet which absorbed footfalls, leaving only the whisper of pages turning. He was just glad the Science Hall had been largely untouched.
Walker had found a table tucked back in the corner behind the geology books. A doorway had been walled off after the fire, leaving a hall that went nowhere. Someone had shoved a table in there to make a study space, but since it had no windows, it wound up being too dark and stifling for anyone to want to use.
I’ll tell you, as productive as I’m being while I’m here, I suspect I should visit Hawaii more often.
Hey Mary! I don’t suppose there is a higher resolution version of the photo?
I am sorry to rain on your parade, but to me that does not appear to be a Tyrannosaur in the background, beyond the mastodon skull and cases. (My credentials: my “I’m going to be a paleontologist when I grow up!” phase lasted until my junior year in college. Still a reasonably large dino nerd, if no longer the up-to-the-minute know-it-all I once was.)
I would guess it’s a mammal — my first guess was tree sloth, but it could be a bear or something else of the sort. I could try to look up some skeletons for comparison — the shape of that hip bone may well be diagnostically helpful, even though the really juicy items like the details of the skull shape are hard to make out at this distance.
Darn. Of course. It is too small among other things, but I so wanted it to be a dinosaur.
Sorry. If it’s any consolation, tree sloths are totally awesome 😉