"Relocating an Old Friend"
Pootatuck Territory
Just so you know, I’m
blushing as I write this, happily embarrassed to be mistaken about the “Former
Big Row of Boulders.” They still sit on that “stone wall” where they have been
for who knows just how long.
(And the sun peeks up over the hill to the east, “Nonnewaug’s Hill,” they call it, “where he had his camp,” they say about the Late Woodland/Contact Era Village. I’ll check that “Sheet” to see what that window is aligned with, like a Newport Tower – I mean “Windmill.” Maybe that Old Dreaded Hammonasset Line, now that I think of it, the sun shining in my eyes, the TV completing the triangulation of the viewing spot on my sofa, centering myself in the universe…)
So, as often happens
with me and lost things, I found that segment of stones after I stopped looking
for them – and got a bonus or two as well, seeing something else I’d misplaced
on my cognitive map of the Nature Center as well as noticing a few new features
for the first time.
I parked where I
had parked a while back, when I had taken those sun drenched and tree shadow ruined
photos. Actually, just like this one below. Those shadows can be quite revealing
(like those scientifical petroglyphal
guys say), and one may pause to wonder if that’s a Snake’s Eye perhaps intentionally
pecked into that boulder so that the sunlight might suddenly “Open the Eye.”
2/2/2023: Where I thought the big boulders were, in the distance...
Walking along, I’m
thinking: Well, it’s full of colorful stones, especially many shades of quartz
and pegmatites, some with strikingly beautiful patterns on them, sometimes an
unusual shape – just like you read about somewhere or other, plagiarized from
the original Mary Gage. I can’t see under the leaves all that well, but
overall, so far, it’s a mostly “linear row of stones” nor can I remember that “straight
line rule” someone made up about whether an Indian Stone Wall can or can’t be
like that...
(I looked at the LiDar and it's a big black shadow left of center, where the row of stones and a brook...
...interact in an odd way that I need to look at again...)
Colorful Stones, stones chosen and placed for a resemblance to Indigenous Iconography in other art media, you know, rhomboidal "diamonds" and all:
And of course I’m
looking for combinations of stone that any reasonable person (not just artists and
other types of unreasonable people) just might look at and think “That looks
like a turtle.”
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