Another hike into Byng yesterday. Not a lot new discovered, but did revisit and reexamine both Kansas and Kentucky. Set up some train track in Lion’s Roar, but nothing finalized. Great fun… evening sun shining on me as I worked. The train track will be set up all along the interior wall of the Lion’s Roar rock, a natural setting. Thought of even leaving it up in the winter, but I suppose it would rust anyway; better just to finalize it (today?) and then take pictures to remember and re-create the layout later, just like I did in Billfork. This would be the 3rd marble track set up in the woods, after Hermania and Billfork. This could be the most natural of the 3 locations to set it up. Marbles from Kansas originally? Or at least they settled there in some number. Perhaps a track ran all up and down Kansas at some time in the past, terminating in Lion’s Roar. Instead of a single foot path winding through Kansas, you’d have that single track. Highly industrialized, like a coal country valley with a rr running through it. I’ll always remember Kansas as the place I resolved the Tin S. Man – Wallace3 friction of nearby Green Oz Valley, and add in Kentucky of course, since the Bee Line seems to, among other things, represent long, straight synchs like DSotR2.
How to further develop Kentucky today or tomorrow or Monday? Need to identify the skull there. Need to probably mark out the line better — I think I have the correct alignment, and, indeed, it appears to be about 65 yards long, or 2/3rds the length of a football field. My theory now is that it begins in a clump of grass between Lovely Dovey Trees (which have lost about all their leaves since I took snapshots of them last weekend), and ends at Tie Rock.
Buy compass to get the angle of Bee Line. I’m not finished with it yet.
Most important new find might be the discovery of the sanctioned center of Bee Line, or what I’m presently calling Center Rock.
There’s even a tiny central hole in this rock to emphasize the name. It lies between Central Tree and Tiny Tree, and, of course, right on the Bee Line. As I’m estimating, it’s about 13-14 yards to the lower end of Bee Line from this rock, and then about 50 yards to the upper end. It’s not in the phyiscal, linear center, then, just a central theoretical measuring point, like the Greenwich meridian. I think I’ll call the rock Tiny Central, then, since it lies between two trees of those names.
Will train track be set up in Kentucky? It seems to be more of a lab in this way. Did marbles come here, if they lived in Kansas below it? Perhaps. Maybe they created the Bee Line. So many mysteries remain.
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