I wanted to call this spot a “Dell” because
that’s the first word that came to mind when I first saw it. And it sounds more romantic and
picturesque than “small sort of natural amphitheater." I looked “dell” up just
to make sure and not look anymore foolish than I already do. I found that a
“dell” is:
-
a small valley
with trees and grass growing in it
-
a secluded hollow or small valley usually
covered with trees or turf
-
A small secluded
wooded valley.
- (Physical Geography) a small, esp. wooded hollow
- a small wooded hollow
- dingle
- holler, hollow - a small valley between
mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the
Appalachians"
[Old English; related to Middle Low German delle valley; compare dale]
None of these
definitions adds stones in there as a requirement, so I’ll temporarily name
this the Stone Dell at the Shape-shifter Turtle High Place, wishing I knew how
to say that in that Algonquin-r or Quiripi dialect so it sounded more romantic and picturesque.
I
came across this dell after climbing to the high place and while returning to
my car along the lower slope of the foot of the hill:
I wasn’t sure if I was seeing a rectangle or zigzags or both or what.
There’s definitely one serpent (definitely one possible serpent?), possibly two
possible (definitely probably possible?) serpents, and one stretching out of the possible rectangle. Difficult to photograph, as zigzag rows of stones
sometimes are, there is a carefully constructed stone zigzag row, possibly the body or tail to this possible Serpent:
(Is the head a sort of
a grinding slick???)
(The other Snaky Side:)
Closer – looking toward the hilltop, the High Place,
standing in a little bowl down where the terrain in more gentle. Open this in a
full size window of its own and you may see the cobbles on the boulders up
above some boulders – and a split boulder right in the middle, looking very
possibly like a crow, perhaps:
As I got closer to the south end of the boulder, I changed
my mind, it was still sort of a bird. But it was also something else: - and something else
besides. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was something else besides that too:
But I was not un-surprised, but maybe I was a little bit as I walked around to the opposite end and up close it wasn’t a
bird anymore. It was something possibly else besides, also, too:
And then the stacked stones on the boulders got me – I never looked at the
fourth side:
The entire series of photos is up on a Flickr page I occasionally remember I have:
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