Waking Up on Turtle Island

Just one link: http://www.pomperaug.org/pdf/pgs3-4.PDF Nothing ever happened. Yet. Above: the weir remains as of Jan. '05...

I just got back into contact with a long time friend, Roger Makepeace. Walking anywhere with him was like having a living fieldguide to th...

Because I saw the link at RockPiles, http://greatmuin-rockpiles.blogspot.com/ , I'm posting these for "greatmuin." (And the o...

Sunny Afternoon By Mark Barabasz Sun shines brightly as my daughter lies in the grass quiet afternoon in suburban Seattle her hair shiny, he...

In SUSAN ALLPORT’s “Sermons in Stone; The Stone Walls of New England and New York,” the author writes, “In 1871 there were 252,539 miles of ...

This was news to me: "So the story goes, Punxsutawney Phil was named after King Phillip. Prior to being called Phil, he was called Br...

Some of the turtles I neglected to photograph do appear in drawings. There are many "Turtle Specific" specimens in (an imaginary)...

Taken from Frank G. Speck’s "Delaware Big House Ceremony (1931)” “Outlined in partic...

Peter left a comment about the last post so I had to look at those two photos again. I want to identify this one as a box turtle on a big st...

It's nice to be mentioned in Rock Piles now and again. Like in the recent "Group Walk in Estabrook Woods:" "... when I fi...

I guess these road realignment plans aren't going to happen, but I'll post this up anyway. I don't think their preservation had...

"A Zigzag on a Bison Skull May be North America's Oldest Art" "What looks like a rather nondescript, zigzag line on the s...

Every once in a while I find a wooden rail or two on top of a stone row. I assume they are chestnut rails be...

My scanner acts up every once in a while. It's frustrating. So how about this: Here's some stone worked spring things: I did actuall...