Well, all day long
the day before yesterday, in the back of my mind, I kept thinking about ends of
stone rows (or rows of stones or stone walls) that may not have boulders at the
place where they end (or perhaps where they begin, since a big boulder that
resembles a snake’s head might signify a beginning while a row of stones that
sort of dribbles off into a wet spot might be interpreted as a tail). Sometimes
the snake’s head resembles smaller stones stacked likes the scales of a
serpent, a squamation or scalation variation (and sometimes it is quite
beautiful too).
Tickle the search
box at Rock Piles with “ends of stone walls” and you will find the source of the
photo that had been eluding me for weeks and months now right here: http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2008/11/large-cairn-found-by-larry-harrop-and.html
Photo Source: Larry Harrop (2008)
And
sometimes the Great Serpent’s head stone is a bedrock outcrop, another
variation that I can’t rhyme right this moment...
Tickle the search
box at Rock Piles with “ends of stone walls” and you will find something
in-between in size (and quite beautiful too): http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2010/11/pepacton-ledges-ny.html
theseventhgeneration writes:
"This is a stone wall near the Pepacton Reservoir in an area
called The Pepacton Ledges. I started out by finding the end of the wall..."
“...Downhill the wall widens... Feeling like this is arguably
some sort of mill or agrarian purpose at first glance, I still found myself
attracted to the beauty of the entire structure and also surprised that this
survived the flood of 2006...”
And we just might be back to the Squamation
Variation:
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