Whitehead Crossing Again 03

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4 Sticks star formation on a pine tree. Cute if perhaps not meaningful this time. But who knows with this wacky kooky place?

Multiple trunked or branched tree beside 3rd stick. I need to talk to you’n’s about the numbering of the 4 Sticks. I’ve been calling the largest and southernmost of the 4 sticks proper the 1st Stick so far, I believe. But this may instead be called the 4th. If so, then Last Tree, pointed to by what is now the *1st* Stick instead of the 4th, becomes First Tree. Last to First, just like in a miraculous race. And this certainly is a miraculous place (if not a race).

So this is 3rd Stick (foreground) and 4th Stick (background), a contrast in styles. 4th Stick is very straight and quite thick, or at least much thicker than the remaining 3 of its stick/log family. 3rd Stick is much less thick and considerably more curvy in nature, although overall still forming a pretty straight line. The bark texture is also rough and holey compared to the smooth 4th.

Closeup of 3rd Stick.

A mysterious alley of trees in 4 Sticks. I will probably say more about this soon.

The pointed end of a fallen branch above the 4 sticks proper, as yet unnamed. The formation, to me, appears to resemble the head of a long thin animal. I’ll have to think of what animal more — not a boar I don’t believe, in checking Google images just now.

Not The Crocodile I don’t think, but I’m not as sure about eliminating that one.*

Notice also the white rock on the other side of the small tree from it.

A big find for the day, or a re-finding if I remember correctly. I have no doubt of a name or an association in this case. This is definitely Pendulum Stick or just The Pendulum, which, like the branch that burdened Relieved Tree until only just recently, is a small, live tree holding part of a dead, fallen tree branch. But unlike the former, this relationship is much more fine tuned and balanced — the supported, dead branch actually waggles quite easily in any breeze, defining the name. And when I spotted this formation, I remembered it from before, since forgotten. I must have originally The Pendulum several years back. I’ve only known of Whitehead Crossing for about 4 years total. Once again, I’ll have more to say about this soon enough, most likely. Is it a 4 Sticks clock??

The below photo comes from the top of The Pendulum, where the supporting and supported branches are almost exactly the same circumference. The small twiglets projecting from the latter, holding up the former, are hidden from view here.

And now the bottom of The Pendulum, where the supporting stick has narrowed considerably, and hovers several inches above the ground. In total, the supported stick may be about 3 feet long, but I haven’t made an exact measurement… yet.

Looking by The Pendulum at First Tree (formerly Last Tree) and Next Tree behind it.

Another unnamed rock nearby, on the upper reaches of the banks framing Whitehead Stream here.

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* I believe I’ll call this The Aardvark now, or just Double A (?). I figured out what animal’s snout it looks like.