Daily Archives: April 22, 2013

Piece of metal with chain found on bank of Whitehead Brook just beyond what I thought was metal in the stream itself, but turned out to be a long, jagged piece of rust colored bark. Queer conjunction, then.

Upon closer examination, the piece of metal extended well back of the chain.

I was able to rather easily pull the whole thing out of the ground, and stuck it in the ground inside a nearby rotting tree trunk. Let’s call it art, once more. 🙂

This was a rather botched shot of a shinier rock near the conjuction of Whitehead Brook and Little Whitehead. Sneakily impressive albedo in action here.

2 pots near the center of Whitehead X-ing. I have not pulled these out of the ground for closer examination yet. My guess is that the bottom is rotted out of both.

Nearby group of bottles laid there probably over 2 years ago by yours truly. No art present yet.

What appears to be a yellow jacket nest on the ground near the pots and bottles pictured above. Looks like it was knocked out of a tree. Wind… or aliens?

Buckeye saplings are common in this forest.

Stick’s End (interesting trunk terminus of the 4th and last stick of “4 Sticks” fame).

Unnamed Whitehead X-ing rock near 4 Sticks, on the opposite side from Whitehead Brook.

“Exploding” end of a branch atop a nearby rock, also unnamed.

Interesting shiny spot on a 4 Sticks limb; of unknown nature.

4 Sticks. This is most likely an area originally called ZoSo because of this, perhaps later morphed into SoSo (SEE: Pietmond).

Floating branch segment in 4 Sticks, unusual as well because it is much thicker than the supporting tree. Does the tree mind bearing such “dead weight”?*

Crisscrossing of sticks in the 4 Sticks area, but not any of the 4 Sticks themselves, which run, instead, parallel to each other in a row.

Big Log (name?) disappearing into rhododendron above Whitehead Brook. The higher creek bank before it may soon be topped with some kind of avatar “castle” or other structure. Just a vision.

Little Whitehead scene with the “green turtle” rock again mentioned at the end of the Whitehead X-ing Again 01 post.

But when we shift to the top of the formation, it takes on more the appearance of a green *parrot*.

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* Compare this to the album cover of Zoso, also known as Led Zeppelin IV. This album was highlighted in Carrcass-3, by the way.

Hucka Doobie has since indicated that the hanging branch is a direct reference to this cover (!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV#Album_cover_and_inside_sleeve

The 19th-century rustic oil painting on the front of the album was purchased from an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire by Plant.[5][6][17] The painting was then juxtaposed and affixed to the internal, papered wall of the partly demolished suburban house for the photograph to be taken.

Page has explained that the cover of the fourth album was intended to bring out a city/country dichotomy that had initially surfaced on Led Zeppelin III:

It represented the change in the balance which was going on. There was the old countryman and the blocks of flats being knocked down. It was just a way of saying that we should look after the earth, not rape and pillage it.[8]

However, regarding the meaning of the album cover, he has also stated:

The cover was supposed to be something that was for other people to savour rather than for me to actually spell everything out, which would make the whole thing rather disappointing on that level of your own personal adventure into the music.[18]

The album cover was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of “Classic Album Cover” postage stamps issued in January 2010.[19]

The inside illustration, entitled “The Hermit” and credited to Barrington Colby MOM, was influenced by the design of the card of the same name in the Rider-Waite tarot deck.[6] This character was later portrayed by Page himself in Led Zeppelin’s concert film, The Song Remains the Same (1976). The inner painting is also referred to as View in Half or Varying Light and was sold at auction under that name in 1981.[20]

No Title Spring. Water only in middle of its course presently, evaporating or heading underground before reaching Grey Rock.

Ground shot of a rock beside No Title Spring. I’ll be taking more of these types of pictures, especially at Whitehead Crossing.

Another rock from about the same location. Like the spring, there’s no names for these rocks yet — but actually the spring has a name now: No Title Spring, accompaniment to Grey Rock and its piggybacking Seal Stone, it seems.

Grey Rock (left) and No Title Rock (right). It’s also possible that No Title Rock is the actual Seal Stone… all this is in development still.

Blackened end of an uprooted tree.

The Little Whitehead bridge first discussed here a bit.

This is a new twist: the mossy colored rock in the background of the picture above certainly appears to take the shape of a green turtle (!).

But is it *mounting* the rock?

http://www.neoperceptions.com/snakesandfrogs.com/scra/turtles/boxturtle.htm