365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Geology Sandbox Interactive Display
Day 338: Working in the Outdoor Building at the Puyallup Fair, I might have missed this ultra-super-cool interactive display in the Department of Natural Resources exhibit had it not been for someone on the next shift drawing my attention to it. It's basically just a sandbox for grown-ups, but oh, what fun for a map lover! An overhead projector beams colours and contour lines onto the surface, and as you push the sand around or pile it up, you get a feel for how physical topography works. A pit dug over here fills with the blue of water, green forested zones grow or shrink as rocky red ridges and mountains are built up or torn down. The challenge I took was to create a mountain tall enough to maintain a snowcap (not easy with shifting sand!), and here you see the result.
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