Sylvania Adventure

Margaret & I have been looking for a chair for her to use in our bedroom to read when she wants some peace & quite. There was a moving sale in Sylvania yesterday so we drove there to check it out. It was at a very small very old house on Main St. After looking at the stuff they had to sell I would have put most of it out to the street and let the freebee bargain hunters have at it.





It was about lunch time after we got got done there. Margaret says I need to get more spontanious in coming up with new places to visit for the two of us. I remembered someone talking about a new restaurant near Centennial Quarry in the Mayberry Shopping Center. We drove there for lunch. It was a small diner tucked in with the shops. This diner was right across the street from the Dinosaur Park, where anyone can look for fossils.






The park itself is only open on weekends, but you can walk on a asphalt trail that the Sylvania Park System created that runs around the old Silica Quarry, which is adjacent to the Dino Park. There are still many piles of shale along the trail that give up there fosils now and then. After a long winter and many days of rain, the top layer of soil is washed away revealing the fosils. They stick up like little soldiers waiting to be plucked from the ground. I found a great specimen of Pyrite or fools gold. It was sitting there shinning in the sunlight. It looked like a gold nugget. It is very heavy for it's size. I also found a few Brachiopods. They come in varing different sizes. At one point in history the Toledo area was covered by a shallow salt water sea. I found many bits of coral while I was searching.

Margaret found a few Brachiopod shells and some very pretty quartz. Some was white and some rose colored. When we got home and counted the pieces we had over 50 pieces of fossils. Not bad for a hour of searching.