Daily Archives: April 9, 2014

Rock island lying at the upper end of Green Stream’s Straightway. I believe the 2 redder objects are bits of brick, which then have to be manmade.

Crocodile Rock.

Perhaps odd, broken off or cut off branches on either side of Green Stream near the center of the Straightway.

Contrast of red brick and green plant.

Old fence post. There are several of these in Matland.

Hidden Rock just east of Welcome Mat.

More aligned and also as yet unnamed rocks extending uphill from 4 Sticks in a westerly direction.

Vinland vines.

I believe this may be Eagle Rock next to Green Stream. I have years and years to figure out all these names. Well, at least 10. Eagle Rock, if it ends up being called that, forms a triumvirate with Crocodile Rock and Welcome Mat in Matland. They’re similarly sized, spaced, and also align with each other. Cool!

Top o’ the gateway hemlocks again at the end of Green Stream’s Straightway.

One of several black plastic pots found in the region. A mystery concerning Crocodile Rock and these pots will be discussed soon.

Passageway over a ridge covered with rhododendron.

Bramble of briars on the way to 4 Sticks.

A differently hued, central 4 Sticks tree

Little Whitehead from its top.

Queer markings on a log beside and above Eagle Rock.

Gateway hemlocks.

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Greene Knob seen through Whitehead Crossing trees. Greene Knob is about the same height as Allen Knob, which The Crossing is at the base of. The top of Green Stream runs between the 2 mountains.

Another Heart o’ Whitehead X-ing picture, this time from Big Log looking over the top of Orange Hill to Mouse Island just behind it. Mouse Island might become another stuff of legends soon enough, perhaps attached to the Gill’s Pier 2052 Celebration.

Moss and licken bedecked WH X-ing log.

Curious bark, probably hemlock.

Big Log from Mouse Island.

Diamond Beach a bit downstream from Big Log/Orange Hill/Mouse Island.

Namesake Diamond Rock is still anchored in place near the banks of Whitehead Stream. I’ve deemed the rock a supernatural phenomenon, and this appellation would go for a number of other regional objects. I’ll have to make a list of ’em soon.

Close up of tree roots just across Whitehead Stream from Diamond Beach. Another fairy dwelling? Probably.

Big Log, etc., from Diamond Beach.

Entrance into Matland from the direction of 4 Sticks, Welcome Mat rock in the foreground. I’d also include this rock with Diamond Rock as supernatural in origin at its core. And perhaps not by accident both of these rocks appear together in a recent Falmouth series collage (“Sky Diamond”).

Another very interesting aspect of Welcome Mat is that it appears to align with 2 other rocks of Matland, defining an overall spine or meridian of the region marking the upper limit of the Korean Channel. The other 2 rocks remain unnamed for now…

… This is the central of the 3, and in rainier times a pool appears at its base.

Let me pull up an older photograph of this rock for comparision.

There was also a black plastic pail appearing on or near the rock in the past, which now seems to have moved west to reside more near the western edge of Matland. In fact this present day of photo snapping I found several such pails or buckets in Matland.

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Exciting new hikes into Whitehead Crossing in Frank Park, which will continue through the spring and perhaps even the summer. I expect a detailed map of the region to be produced sometime soon. Below is an unnamed rock near the Welcome Mat, separating Matland and Whitehead Crossing proper, and where you have to literally (and psychologically) “step up” from the top of the Korean Channel to enter the latter.

This particular day I also revisited Hucka Doobie’s homeland of Greenhead, where he lived as a part bee, part human avatar in the 1500s. Well, I’m not sure of the century, if it can even be calculated, so I just threw in that particular one as filler for now. Hucka is also present in the last, let’s see, 4 collages of the Falmouth series, which now seems to be completed (!). He’s quite excited to loom so large in the end.

Below we have another picture of Waxy, the branch configuration Hucka D. has said is a representation of a martin bird, connected to Allen Knob and its Martin Falls as a whole. I’ll have to go down to Martin Falls for some pics fairly soon, esp. during or immediately after a hefty rain. But not in the near future, since that would involve some steep walking, which I’m not allowed to do for a while. *Hate* to be limited in such a way.

I’m going to call this larger open region of Whitehead X-ing The Mall for now. It’s perhaps defined by the limits of a certain green ground cover that I’ll have to look up the name later. Hemlocks and tulip trees like the below clump sprout from within. There are several such closely tied clumps of trees here, and again I’ll have to study up on that more as well — perhaps include them in my map I’ll soon produce.*

An interesting crossing of trunks at The Mall, like a type of art in and of itself. Notice that the perpendicular trunk of the fallen tree weaves between the 2 of the 3 standing trees, wedging it into place and not allowing it to drop to the ground.

Directly uphill from The Mall. The ground cover (name pending) does not follow us upslope, yielding (once more) to leafy ground. But interesting stick/branch formations remain. Below we have a contrast of another wedged branch (between two conjoined tulip or poplar trees this time) beside a perhaps quirky tree stump.

A straight stick, about the size perhaps of a walking stick, is stuck in the ground behind the trunk, almost as if accomplished by human hands. But, once again, I’m probably the only human that visits this place, and I didn’t do it.

Still just uphill from The Mall appears this more curious rock piling in a shallow vale, which could denote a past fairy dwelling, or perhaps even present one still. Hucka D. may have more to say about this “dwelling” soon enough.

There *does* seem to be a kind of door into it.

Nearby is another artistic crossing of branches.

In looking at it now, it kind of reminds me of a crab coming head on, claws spread.

From about the same position, looking into the heart of 4 Sticks and the attached pine grove.

Still quite gray in the woods as you can see.

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* The ground cover appears to be one called complanatum. More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphasiastrum_complanatum

It’s better known as Creeping Jenny, it seems, a type of clubmoss. Also known as “Bear’s Paw”.

Here’s another picture of it…