Today is the 20th anniversary of my first date with my wife Karen. We went to a dance in college. I was a supersenior, she was a junior. The 19th anniversary of our engagement was earlier this month, on the wedding anniversary of the Kaeders, and our 18th wedding anniversary was back in August. Today Karen had some paperwork to do, so I took Kris and Katie a little south of Austin to see the Pilot Knob area. This whole region was ocean in the Late Cretaceous and Pilot Knob is a remnant of an 80 million year old volcano. It's not much to see, really just a few hills (background, first pic), but for a rockhound it was interesting to see an igneous outcrop in the middle of so much sedimentary rock (foreground, first pic). After that we stopped by McKinney Falls State Park. It was nice. Onion Creek makes a couple waterfalls over some formations related to the aforementioned volcano. The falls, like most other creeks around here, are pretty dry, but the rock formations were pretty cool, as were the cypress trees near the water. It think it would be fun to take pix there when the sun is low in the sky and the sky's colors are reflected in the many pools and off the white rocks. When we got home we went swimming for about 15 minutes because was nearly 90 F out, the pool was still open, and a cold front is expected to be here about Tuesday. Though the air was warm, the pool was a little chilly.
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Apparently Ralph McKinley's Thesis on pilot knob has been overlooked . It was one of the earliest research projects conducted there, in about 1940, and is yet interesting to read.
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