Fossilized waves from when rock that now comprises the Himalayas was under the ocean.

After having a week to recuperate from my bout with a parasite, I decided enough hard-core vacationing and time to find a volunteering gig. I'm now spending time on Woodstock's campus, mostly at their environmental center. Tomorrow I will start working at their organic farm, I think. The two workers on the farm only speak Hindi, and I definitely only speak English, so tomorrow might be a game of charades and a little transplanting along with. We'll see.

Here are some pictures from a geology field trip that I got to go on with the first and second grade classes.

This is the shrub from which Mussoorie gets its name, the Mansur shrub. Its small purple berries are edible and taste sweet.

These are the fossilized trails of prehistoric sea creatures called trilobites. This is a rare and important geologic finding. The fossils will probably disappear as the rock erodes over the next decade.