this week

I spent Monday through Wednesday out in western Maryland, looking for archaeological sites along the Potomac River. We were rained on, we had to cut our way through huge thickets of rose bushes, and we were assaulted by clouds of mosquitoes, but it was still a delight to be out in the spring air amidst beautiful mountains finding beautiful bits of shiny rock left behind by people thousands of years ago.

Here is my crew, excavating a shovel test into a 2000-year-old camp site:


And some wild iris, photographed at dusk along the C&O Canal: