Where was I? I was going to go back to the car, walking along those old
and older trails to the new trail, the red battery icon blinking even though I had switched to what I thought was a fully
charged second battery I carry. I paused for a few details, possible (probable) smaller effigies
inside the larger serpent form:
I continued walking along that upper row of
stones and came to another sort of gap or gateway with a prominent bright white
quartz stone – a large cobble or small boulder, I suppose, depending on that
sketchy definition of the two that states a cobble is a one person stone while
a boulder requires two people to lift it – but my impression is of a serpent
head looking upward at that same angle as that much bigger white boulder where
my circular path began that day, while just above it along another course of
stones (the uppermost) a similarly shaped stone is placed to resemble the same
sort of thing, tilted at about the same angle, looking in the downhill
direction:
Above: one I
included before, but also a few more centered in the photos below; something with a
sharp beak in the first? – Turtle? (More likely) a Bird? More around it, all
placed with suggestions of eyes uppermost on the stone. The one in the
following photo seems turtle-like, with an eye and again a beak, but it rests
on another and I’m unsure if it’s another turtle or if the long flat stone
behind it could represent the body of a snake…
(I look back into that older folder to see if any better
images are in there, surprise myself that on this second visit I failed to
re-locate this one below in the same segment, a pretty obvious turtle composed
of a white quartz carapace with a nuchal notch, along with long slim piece of stone that
is perhaps a turtle’s extended neck andhead, perhaps slightly askew of its original position:)
(Above: suspected turtle circled in red – and in yellow, the
suggestion of something anthropomorphic that suddenly pops into my awareness
just this morning, surprising me – a human face in profile?)
I pass by that
gate again:
Take a look back up the hill...
...eventually turning eastward when the row ends, and then I’m back on
that trail with the blocky remnants, looking down at the new gravel on the Land
Trust Trail just above the stream…
The larger white quartz boulder once again, so you don’t
have to look back at the older post:
The same medium sized red dog for scale as above, there’s a second light
colored stone, similarly triangular, and about the same size, looking in the
opposite direction at roughly the same (opposite? complementary?) angle – and below you can
see a flat dark colored stone, possibly yet another snake-like head…
Is each course a separate snake??
Were they built at the same time? Were they built over a longer period of time, one at a time?
I can answer those quickly: I don't know
An
undulation in the wall farther along:
Back
to the trail and to where I’ve parked my car:
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