Category Archives: Whitehead Crossing

Ridge between Little Whitehead and Whitehead (Brook). This may be the site of the true or at least the core of Whitehead Crossing. Makes sense. There’s that evergreen grass again, back center.

Red root in Whitehead Brook.

Very large tree beside Whitehead Brook on this ridge. I believe this is a locust tree.

Directional Rock, to south of Whitehead Brook now. This lies between Hucka D.’s bottle site and Rock’s Meadows.

And now Hucka D.’s 50 or so bottles.

This particular day of photo snapping, I decided that Whitehead Brook can logically be divided into several part in its flow within Whitehead Crossing. These can be established by the points the stream’s 2 “tributaries” join the flow, or, first, Little Whitehead (seen below)…

… and then the spring which lies beside the Grey Rock complex, which presently doesn’t have enough water to make it to Whitehead Brook — dries up in the meantime — but obviously during heavy rains does. It just so happens that this huge tree (oak?) fell across Whitehead Brook right at this conjunction.

Dry patch underneath this fallen trunk.

Higher clay bank just beyond (downstream) — no name yet.

Log from downstream. The island in the foreground also has no name as of now. I’ll create a new Whitehead Crossing map showing these new Whitehead Brook & Whitehead Crossing divisions asap.

Closeup of recently designated White Rock next to the second largest rock of the Grey Rock complex. Where *does* it point to?

Grey Rock and largest neighbor, still unnamed. White Rock is on the other side of the foreground rock.

The stream flow beside Grey Rock. I must get a name for this soon. This is obviously not Little Whitehead, an appellation which has been claimed by the only other spring flow within Whitehead Crossing, just to its west. We’ll get into more of that in a moment. To the right in the below photo you have Bald Head Rock, which, like White Rock, has direct associations with Robertson County of the Lone Star state.

Was Grey Rock known at one time as King Rock? Or was its *neighboring* large rock known as that? At any rate, if you enlarge the below photo by clicking on it, you can see White Rock as a white speck against the latter’s gray surface. I also see the spot where I took the photo here as a place of meditation in the future, perhaps the site of a temple even. It lies at the head of the spring, with a great view down to Grey Rock and also the woods beyond. Each of these rocks could have a story to tell.

Picture of the middle rocks of the stream, taken from the west. None of these rocks currently have names.

It could be that one of the rocks around Grey Rock is called Seale or Seale Rock, thinking of yet another Robertson County town near Headsville and Bald Prarie. We’ll just see.* If so, it might be a Seal Stone, shortened over time to Sealston.

Was Grey Rock actually called Seal Stone at one time? Thinking here of the topping rock like a ball at the end of the seal or sea lion’s nose.**

Closeup of Bald Head Rock.

A smooth rock below Grey Rock, with my now empty coffee cup atop it. Seale Rock in the distance (yes, I’ve already figured out which one it probably is!).

Grey Rock and topping Seale Rock (!) from the south. This end of a tree trunk stuck in the ground probably means something as well in meaning packed Whitehead X-ing.

We now move to the top of Little Whitehead only maybe 20 or so yards to the west of Grey Rock.

The depression in the foreground was probably seen as a source of the stream, at least during a certain time period. It has also been associated in this blog with another crashed rocket site of some unknown Rocket Man, maybe the great whitehead Sinclair himself (?)

3 pine trees traditionally marking another boundary of Whitehead X-ing, this time on its west side, and just above the source of Little Whitehead.

* Elton John’s “Grey Seal”.

** Jethro Tull’s “Sea Lion”.

After several attempts at this, I’m finally energetic enough after work to take some worthwhile photos of Whitehead Crossing, which has more and more become a woodsy center or focus for me recently. And, I feel, down the road as well, when I’ll be a true White Head in da Woods (retired). How far to go within or penetrate the essence currently? Apparently quite a lot. Let’s start with a northeast corner of the designated area, which is the same as the corner of what was probably an old pasture. How old are the trees of Whitehead X-ing within this old pasture area? Unsure.

Rotted group of trees just inside this corner. Not sure what kind they are.

More trailing vines just down the hill. We’re nearing Grey Rock and its accompanying stream once more.

Floating tree branch perhaps defining another internal Whitehead Crossing border.

Grey Rock from the south.

Bottom of Grey Rock’s west side. All these details seem important.

Gray Rock, of course, has a famous topping rock, as yet unnamed actually. Piggyback Rock? It’s the original one thing on top of another thing according to more of that local legend. So that makes it also the Original Collage, I suppose. More on this rock soon. It’s obviously a center of a center.

A rhododendron sprouts from the side of Gray Rock, attempting to hide its topping or piggyback rock from this angle.

East side of Grey Rock. Remember that this rock had been associated with Maine and Norumbega and Nautilus Island/Jeogeot/Second Life well before I learned about the additional strong Maine resonance with the area through Monhegan Island and its Whitehead and Little Whitehead, etc. This connected to the fact that Grey Rock is also known as Jeogeorock (or a jeogeorock, for there may be several), or a rock that embodies the essence of Second Life’s Jeogeot continent which I was so involved in for several years.

A fence post near the top of the ridge pictured at the bottom of the Whitehead X-ing 02 blog entry. Some fragments of barb wire are still attached, marking its past function.

I believe I’ll just go ahead and call this water flow Little Whitehead until I come up with a better name. This would be the stream that empties into Whitehead Brook at the tip of the ridge with the fence post above. I suppose I could scan recent blog posts to see if I can spot a better and more symbolic name. Ram Brook? (probably not)

Anyway, below we have a quite interesting log bridge across this flow.

Just downstream — still on Little Whitehead, comes this passageway through mossy rocks. This Baker Blinker Blog post from several years ago shows another type of bridge (branch) spanning these rocks. More evidence of the wee people in the area, perhaps akin to those who live on Mohegan Island, Maine? (given the other Maine resonances in the Whitehead area)

Detail of rock from this same ridge. A secret star map?

A quite iridescent rock in the Whitehead Brook flow nearby. Not sure what the involved mineral is, but it gives the appearance of an oil film.

And — perhaps again strangely — just upstream in Whitehead Brook from this rock appears an iridescent *piece of glass*, perhaps originally part of a lamp. I’ll study this matter further. I’ll probably go back to Whitehead Crossing even today; the weather is suppose to be perfect almost all week (!)

Then just a bit upstream from that, even, we have what I’ll call Remorse Rock.

Interesting log nearby.

A look across a line of mossy logs into Rock’s Meadow, with Rock’s grave and also The Arena (alternately, The Lycaeum).

Rock’s Meadow itself: grave foreground left, The Arena background left, and “Rock’s rocks” background right. Soon this will be filled with green grass. Nice!