Want to keep up-to-date about Frank and Herman Park explorations. Recently, despite the unusual cold weather, I was able to make it out on a sunny day and explore more of Falmouth Creek, which has become my Spring hiking center for certain. This is where I’ve now taken about 34 bottles for a future art happening — set them on the ground where the center of the event will apparently take place. Yesterday I was able to walk the creek down from this place to a popular path of the area for a second time. I like the way the creek can be seen from the path, but one would really never think about hiking up the creek from there — *normal* people, hehe. Me, I look for those kind of spots. So I’m sort of leeching or mooching off public energy again. A link is what I call Visible I., which is an island in Falmouth that can be seen from the path, and could represent that first stepping stone toward my perceived heart of the creek not far upstream — you can, in fact, hike the whole length of the stream rather easily now (all the way to “Stream’s End”), thanks to my dead rhododendron branch removal efforts. Visible I. is an almost circular island of mainly white or off-white rocks, about maybe 10 feet in diameter. So it’s round like a human eye, and also white. Although it’s visible from the path, for many it will be *in*visible because they won’t see it. They’ll be involved in their own thoughts, their own discussions. Most will pass it by, not even giving it a glance. That’s a beauty of my little setup.
Hucka D.:
I see you’re concentrating more on the spring next to the stream. Do you have a name for it yet?
bb:
Not quite yet. Is *this* TILE Creek, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
A TILE Creek.
bb:
Were Mossmen here? Marbles? Mmmmmmm’s?
Hucka D.:
Let’s see, this is Frank Park — close to Gnirps [on the border of Frank and Herman Parks] but a little south and west. But it could represent a center between the two parks still, since Gnirps is not really that accessible. And you know the stream just to the north, while very pretty, is the same — a quite similar location as Gnirps. But you didn’t take any pictures today of Falmouth.
bb:
Nah. Guess it was just a little too cold for me to mess with the camera, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Mmmmmmm’s maybe. Marbles will move in, definitely, if you wish. Already you have taken this location beyond Con Creek from last summer by placing bottles/glass objects there. You never did that at Concreek Falls, for example.
bb:
No. And I hiked down Con Creek recently for the first time in a long time, all the way to Green Stream. Falmouth Creek is actually considerably more open and free to traverse up and down. At Con Creek, you get clogged up around the second island. But I plan to go back *there* and take pictures. My sunglasses were strangely in the creek at the lower tip of the second island — The Other.
Hucka D.:
Falmouth[ Creek] should be your focus for a while. Away from Con Creek, away from Methril, away from Epsi, yet close to all of these. Along with Rust Spot of course. Heard you heard a dog there.
bb:
Yeah. Maybe a coyote, since I understand they can sound like dogs now. It looked like a coyote, what little I saw of it. I once saw a fox enter those same woods at basically the same spot. He appeared in a field beside the road I was walking, and then entered the woods to continue his barking. I never saw him again, even though the barking was just as loud. He must have been standing or pacing on the very edge, looking out at me from the foliage.
Falmouth Creek so far.
Falmouth originally called Old Baker Settlement… Second Life Pond also named for The Bakers. Bloch Ridge (blocking Second Life Pond from Falmouth Creek and Old Baker Settlement) as well. Bloch Ridge seems unusual — perhaps a manmade ridge. Visible I. may stand for the white star of the Cygnus X-1 system, also called Meet Shake. “How’re *you* doing??” The unnamed spring may be the (accompanying) black hole eye? Must think about Old Baker Settlement and who lived there. Obviously I think The Bakers — Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker. And maybe Hucka Doobie and the rest (Karoz, Esbum, Bracket).
Sunklands 