A change of plans and the summer dig
This lovely bed of day lilies was planted outside of our church here in Monticello by Hope, using plants donated by her Aunt Diane. As you can see, they have flourished, and present a lovely entrance to our church (until this year's drought gets to them...). So, a few of you may be seeing the date of this blog posting, and wondering why I'm writing this today in Monticello, instead of being in Petrozavodsk, Russia, where I was supposed to be... The federal government, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to drastically restrict foreign travel by its employees (including scientists going to scientific meetings), so my trip to Russia (originally approved months ago) got canceled on me about three weeks prior to departure. I was able to send my Russian colleagues a powerpoint presentation with a recorded narration to play in my place, so I guess I'm still contributing to this meeting... So, this means I'll get a few extra days at this year's Arkansas Archeological ...