Monthly Archives: July 2016

Action in Chesterton for a change (!) Experiments with setting up a marble race track occurred two days ago (below)…

Only to be quickly taken up and replaced by pipe that I had already moved into the area. Hmmm…

Centipede trying to move away from all the excitement.

The pipe runs along the western edge of Chesterton, just up the bank of the road. It’s not finished by any means. The railroad track may even come back. I’m just unfurling the whole new happening at a very gradual and hopefully natural pace. Each piece moved in, each position changed, leads to new consequences and strategies.

And even the toy avatars made an appearance on this day, posing below beside 5 straight pieces of the otherwise unused 027 gauge train track. A green golf ball appears in their midst on the track, harking back to the winning Greenilocks marble from last fall’s Bigfoot happening. There are other, familiar faces from that woodsy event, including the double to actor (and Warren Wilson alum) James Franco (red suited dude to right) and his biggest admirer, Ms. Orange Mmmmmm (to his right). Arms-in-air woman, another Bigfoot acting vet, now seems up in arms about the manifestation of a working bathtub and shower. “What the f?” she might utter here. The fronting cars are just happy to be pulled out of mothballs.

The anthropomorphic, purple ant being named Stonie — another participant in the fall happening — is looking around for those of her kind on her mother’s side. None spotted. Her father could have been human. How did that work? A newcomer to toy avatar acting is the wrestler simply known as The Mexican to her right below, who holds some kind of bendy, multi-colored pipe in his arms. Is he attempting to create a model of Chesterton’s road system? More on this soon.

Another shot of that mysterious wood head positioned on the road around Bigfeet Swamp (southeast corner). LINK

Looking up into the trees.

Leola Creek rock.

A more interesting, larger rock found on the outlet stream of Bigfeet Swamp, just before it joins the flow of Leola. A more pointy rock.

Bigfeet cattails…

Perhaps a slightly better picture of the rock on rock mentioned here. LINK

Larger rock within Bigfoot. I believe this is cement now, which once held a fence pole up at the Plateau of Raw Art. Hence the hole in the middle.

More prominent, mossier rock at Chesterton, which is finally developing into something of an official happening as of yesterday and the day before (as I write this post).

The protruding lip of this pink cup in Chesterton matches the pink of my shoes (bottom).

A few feet away, a golden leaf exactly matches the color on faded coke cans just beyond. Something peculiar is already going on here.

Chesterton looking south from about the position of the golden leaf/coke cans.

This is First Tree. Within Chesterton we have 5 or 6 pine trees positioned 10 to 12 feet apart on the eastern edge of the forest road I call Second Road. I’ve decided to name them by number starting with this northernmost one.

An odd root loop in Chesterton. More on that soon.

Chesterton tree with moss around the bottom of it. Mossy might become its name.

More objects found on Second Road to the south of Chesterton.

Sometime in mid to late June, I found out I could safely cross Leola Creek on dry rocks at a place tentatively called “Port Leola” (Porter?), which is within the safe zone mentioned or defined in an earlier post. LINK

Below is pictured a new spot on the same creek, about a 100 feet or so upstream from the safe zone/Port Leola. Unnamed as yet, it’s an amazing cluster of higher rocks with its own internal topography, including peaks, pools, islands, waterfalls, and gorges.

The meat of the rock cluster, with a small falls toward the bottom.

Graffiti at a nearby bridge over Leola Creek. This is Leola Creek Road.

Underneath the bridge.

It was only a short walk up Leola Creek Road to Hand Lake. The Finger is still present on the large island of the lake.

Looks like someone has moved in some larger rocks for unknown reasons.

Small blue flower on the island, possibly a variety of bluet.

I end this post with a couple of pictures snapped at the Plateau of Raw Art, once more.