Sharieland Once More 01

With several days of clear weather ahead, I enter the meat of my Fall Hiking Season. I begin at Heart Lake… at the very start we have confusion, for there are actually *2* nearby but different pools of water named Heart in Sharieland. The below picture depicts the one nearest Head Lake, which is more the actual shape of a heart. I cannot give the full story of this pool for privacy reasons, but I wanted to include a picture of it in this blog anyway. The 2nd, larger and less heart-shaped Heart pool lies about 150 yards behind the tree with the red leaves in the center. That’s what I call Heart Lake; we’ll just call this Heart Pool to differentiate the two.

Sign next to Heart Pool warning about past pesticide use in Herman Park, specifically mentioning the poisons arsenic and lead.

This picture is of the sole feeder stream of Heart Lake, reached by walking through a cow pasture behind Head Lake and attached Heart Pool. The quite green stream is mere feet from emptying its waters into the still pool, situated just offshot to the right.

And then just upstream from the above location we find a very important place for Fall Hiking Season: what I originally called Myst or Mysten but have probably changed to Philo, partially in honor of my Second Life home sim of Philudoria. It’s a unique site on the as yet unnamed stream (I suppose I could call this Heart Stream?), being a larger, beachy spot dotted with small and large rocks in an otherwise marshier, non-beach and nony-rocky area. Distance from Heart Lake here: about 20 yards. We’ll return to this spot soon for some toy avatar adventures. Stay tuned!

Below we have a larger rock perched on the opposite end of the same marshy area above south of Heart Lake. We look directly toward Philo here, but cannot make out the beach because of the tallness of intervening plants.

This is the cow pasture separating Heart Pool/Head Lake and Heart Lake, taken from the earthen Heart Lake dam. Mist is beginning to roll in.

Shot from the same spot, looking the opposite direction across Heart Lake toward Philo.

Path beside Heart Lake eventually leading to the white “Jupiter” rock and accompanying pine branch discussed in this earlier Sharieland post.

A not-so-successfully hidden deer spotted on the way to the Jupiter area. He stands in the stream that enters “Heart Stream” between Heart Lake and Heart Pool, near where an interesting waterfall forms that I haven’t even taken pictures of yet for this blog. So many picture to take, so little relative time!

The Jupiter rock again, with the branch’s “4” still beside it.

Heart Lake as the mist comes even closer.

Interesting triangle of pine trees seen from Philo. Pyramid shaped, even.

Bigger rock pictured in several places above, looking across the marsh from Philo. Must get a name for it — Heart Rock seems too obvious and unimaginative. Maybe *Earth* Rock (Earth being an anagram of Heart). But, then, is Heart Lake itself actually Earth Lake? See here for a comparison of Heart Lake both with Earth and The Sun, but perhaps more the former now. Translation (if so): Earth = Heart. Earth and Heart are direct anagrams of each other, and the only other word that fits this category is “Hater”.

Misty Heart Lake.

(continued in Sharieland Once More 02)