May 10, 2012
Dinosaur Sighting: Blanding Brontosaurus
A metallic, skeletal "Brontosaurus" at a Blanding, Utah Sinclair station. Photo by the author.
Dinosaurs are a common sight along Utah’s roadways. Sinclair stations still display their iconic “Brontosaurus” on signs, and a rarer few have a little dinosaur sculpture out front. And one aged station in Blanding, Utah created its own version of the dinosaurian mascot. While traveling from Salt Lake City to Albuquerque, New Mexico by way of Blanding’s Dinosaur Museum, I spotted the skeletal dinosaur browsing from a tree on the sidewalk. I had to stop and snap a photo—I always brake for dinosaurs.
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That doesn’t look anatomically correct.
Last night on the way home from work I braked for dinosaurs.
Traffic on the two westbound lanes of the Ottawa River Parkway stopped to allow a couple of Canada geese to cross in a majestic and unhurried manner to the grassed median. It’s a common thing in the summer here and it does seem to be accepted that geese have the right of way (never, knock on wood, seen a dead one on the road), especially when they’re herding the goslings across.
No other birds put me so much in mind of their distant departed flightless cousins so much as do geese with their heads held high and their air of assurance.