It was snowing hard in Buffalo when we left on N531JB "Rhapsody In Blue". Fun watching the de-icing guy try to get ahead of it as it formed. :)
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| Nice New York State geology |
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| A detail from above, showing the grooves in the landscape. Is this from glaciers? |
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| This is John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. |
| Long Island Sound |
 | JL at the Public Library |
 | A private nook at the Library |
 | The Flatiron building in traffic |
 | The Flatiron against sunset sky |
 | The Manhattan skyline from Staten Island |
 | St. Patrick's Cathedral |
 | The American Museum of Natural History staff entrance |
| Deinonychus antirrhopus - 75 kilograms of carnivore you should hope never to meet | |
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| Archaeopteryx lithgraphica - a fascinating intermediate between dinosaurs and early birds. It would have weighed only about 100 grams. I'm sorry about the relative scale problem between it and Deinonychus above. |
| Apatosaurus ajax - you might have been introduced to him as Brontosaurus. No photo can do justice to the skeleton of this 35 tonne beauty. |
| Here we have a multi-tonne Allosaurus fragilis (of whom I have photos in Scotland as well) from the late Jurassic. He's quite scary until you compare him to a Tyrannosaurid, who would be just as big, but lighter, smarter, and faster. |
| Thalassodromeus sethi -- Unlike Archaeopteryx, these big things clearly flew. But they did not evolve from or into birds. Just a flying reptile with a 5 m wing span. The skull is about 1.3 m long, and the bony crest on his head was about 80 cm high. I'm told it could have been a rudder. |
The twins we came to NYC hoping to meet were born only a few hours after I left on N544JB "Blue Jean Baby" back to BUF.
I remember seeing Orion as soon as we broke out above the cloud deck, which hid the Manhattan light pollution. I remember my Mazda not wanting to start, having spent the week in a cold damp parking lot in Buffalo, where I did not want to spend much time either.
New York is a planet of its own. Wirch-Mejia hospitality makes it a great
planet to visit though.
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