New Liquor Shots! (the *real* Whitehead X-ing, plus Byng)

First, a photo taken day before yesterday from Kentucky of the Byng Creek area. I’ve visited Kentucky each of the past 3 days, and plan to return there again today after work. More photos will be forthcoming I assume. The below shot is framed by the 2 Lovey Dovey trees on the northern edge of the natural platform, with the Bee Line forming between them just in the foreground and extending another 60-70 yards into the background. Basically impossible to see it in the photo without knowing where to look, but I thought I’d insert it here anyway to generate a bit of text about this very important, apparently psychic *diagonal* across Kentucky. And yes I understand there may now be a tie-in with Heterocera’s The Diagonal I’ve been chatting about so much lately.

We then switch to Whitehead Crossing, the apparent center of centers still of my woodsy extracurricular activity. Below we have a photo taken from the head of No Title Spring, looking down on Grey Seal in the distance. Once more not the best of shots, but thought I’d add it into the mix anyway, since that spot is part of a small list of proposed mediation locations within Whitehead Crossing.

And now we come to the Contemplation Loop, the biggest development in Whitehead Crossing for quite some time, perhaps since Hucka Doobie fished 50 bottles out of Whitehead “Crik” several years back. All remaining photos of the current post come from this loop, designed as a place to pace in a circular manner in order to establish a bridge between man and woods. Before the Contemplation Loop, Whitehead X-ing was too isolated from man (i.e., me). Now its coming into line — through a path line. And, yeah, I’ve thought about a connection between *this* path, a line in the woods, and the Bee Line from Kentucky, which has also become a sort of path since I’ve walked up and down it a number of times now.

At a normal pace, Contemplation Loop takes a bit over a minute to complete. To the east is Grey Seal, which you head directly toward in a straighter stretch of it.

To the south is Whitehead Creek, but, even closer, Little Whitehead. Big Log is also clearly visible from the Loop. Below we have a picture not of Big Log but another, smaller fallen tree lavishly decorated with ferns and extending almost all the way from Contempation Loop to Little Whitehead.

Another fallen tree parallels much of Little Whitehead just behind the log pictured above from this angle.

Grey Seal again from the loop.

Central tulip or poplar trees of same.