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BM Urban Landscape 07/25/15 03

We’re back on the main trail, continuing to head east.

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It’s not really a trail past the wetland but more a bike lane connecting two parts of the trail. I was mildly disappointed that the tar squiggles on the road here didn’t show up on GoogleEarth for further scrutiny. The wife commented favorably on them too when she walked this part of the Urban Landscape with me weekend before last.

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Good deed for the day: I removed this nail from the road and deposited it in a handy nearby dumpster.

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A toothbrush was laying on the ground next to the dumpster.

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We take a little side trek here to keep following Leola Creek north and west behind yet another commercial building. I captured the flight of a crow above the rooftop of the neighboring building.

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Rounding the corner, we spot the entrance to yet another Urban Landscape “picnic area”.

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Interesting nearby door. Entrance to a parallel dimension? (probably not)

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I see this place overlooking Leola Creek, close to Point -1 on our map, as perhaps a balance to similar tables positioned around Point +1 on the other side of the BMUL, or the 6 sided table and the conjoined red and blue tables featured in this earlier post, and which are both found next to Leola Creek in that westward position.

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This confluence of bridges, walking and driving, probably represents the actual position of Point-1 at the eastern tip of our Blue Mtn. Urban Landscape. But this day I decided to follow the official trail further, out in the country a bit.

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BM Urban Landscape 07/25/15 02

We temporarily exit the greenway system past the wetlands and bridge pictured before, heading up a side road instead leading to the main highway of the Blue Mountain commercial strip. In the below picture we look up a side road off this side road toward a community hospital. The hospital is not directly on our Urban Landscape beat, however. Not yet anyway.

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About a 100 yards down the same road brings us to this ambulance service building with fronting, cattail dominated wetland, smaller in dimension than the one across the road just passed.

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The main strip. We will only briefly travel beside it…

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… quickly taking a turn into a Holiday Inn.

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Behind this place, we can walk parallel to the side road just traveled, a marshy brook dividing us from it.

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Soon we run across this picnic area also wedged between the two.

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Looking from this area back up the stream. More cattails. My apologies for the overexposed background.

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Then we use the Lowes Grocery Store backlot from here to connect with the Leola Creek paved trail again, emerging from the border bushes near the rusty bridge beside the larger wetland we saw before.

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More interesting objects found behind Lowes. Trinkets of the urban landscape.

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BM Urban Landscape 07/25/15 01

In our more detailed tour of the Blue Mountain Urban Landscape, we appropriately start at point “0” according to this map. We are going to move in a general direction from “0” east to “-1”, and then back west through “0” to “+1”, then return. In other words we are doing a type of loop sort of centered around “0”, with extremities of “-1” and “+1”. Kind of.

The photo below starts us under the bridge at “0” It is against the law to loiter here so I moved on quickly after taking a couple of snapshots.

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These rocks across Leola Creek give off a vague Wiltshire vibe in their sarsen-like appearance. Compare to stones from the later, for example, in collage 02 of 2013’s Latona series. There is a possibility that Master Shake could reappear here at Point Zero, inspired by the resonance.

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Another version of a drink, wedged in the branches of a rhododendron. Empty. Appears to be too expensive of a beer for possible homeless bridge people. Are there such people?

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From Point Zero halfway to Point -1, we walk along a registered paved trail, a type of greenway. But it isn’t as busy as some parts lying just north and west of the official Blue Mtn. Urban Landscape. Lying north and west of Point -1, in other words.

The below photo finds us peering through green vegetation toward the back of a restaurant on the other side of Leola Creek. Every time I’ve walked by here music has been pouring from the place — Latin music I believe. A bag lies in the branchs of a nearby bush. I’m scared to examine it closer.

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Trail heading west. To the right exists a Lowes Grocery Store and its vast parking lot. To the left is vegetation bordering Leola Creek.

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A defaced birch tree. NS, HC and CS should be ashamed of themselves.

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A break area probably used by Lowes employees. It has been designed as a memorial to a man named Steve D., perhaps a past employee of some note. I’ll have to do more research on that.

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Continuation of the wall westward. Lots of robins in the vicinity. Suppose I could call this Robin Wall or Robins’ Wall, then.

I’ve also found who Steve D. is. Former store manager. Native of Michigan.

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Contrasting neighboring sewer covers. One grassy, one not.

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Interesting wetlands next to a trail bridge.

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Urban Landscape 01

Map of Blue Mountain Urban Landscape, my new hiking focus.

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More interesting picnic table on the western side, near position “+1” on the map.

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Just across the stream we have a geodesic dome church. The table seems matched to the shape of the structure. Interesting collection of rocks near the stream bank here as well. What is the stream name? I know the name in Real Life. What is it in this blog? I’m going to call it Leola Creek for now (not Bristle Creek).

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More picnic tables, matched to themselves this time, and even closer to position “+1” on the above map. I think they might refer to conjoined positive and negative poles of a magnet. Is the Blue Mtn. Urban Landscape itself a magnet?

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If the central creek’s name running between “+1” and “-1” in the landscape is Leola, then this is a pivotal point on it called ALO, a related term.

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ALO is composed of a secret, hidden trail next to Leola Creek. Turning away from the creek while standing in place brings this additional, mysterious structure into view. Could it possibly be the skeleton of another geodesic dome? Seemingly we have reached True Center.

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Sunday as I walked the landscape with my wife, I joked to her that I wanted to buy the property adjacent to ALO where this mysterious wooden skeleton is found. She half believed me, and actually got a little upset about it. I believe it 1/3rd myself, which is something.

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Collage 02/03 Interpretations 02

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You have a Celina, Ohio woman, an artist prim and proper, inserting an eye into a yin/yang spherical symbol called the Taijitu. The iris of the eye is yellow. It is suppose to be a fish eye. [One of] the 4 Residents from the other side of the diptych has a yellow eye as well. He looks down [at Drink], while the other Residents look across[ or toward]. The yellow eye in the Taijitu looks up as opposed to down. This is the same eye.

The general setting for both collages is a cascade area just behind your present house in Blue Mountain. This is the first time in a collage of yours that you’ve included a location so close to your home. Yet you haven’t been down there in years, have you?

“Hucka D., this is how you started the interpretation of Collage 02/03 of the new series, in the last post on this here Baker Bloch Blog.”

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Hucka D.:

Frank and Herman, Einstein! blog yes. As we spoke a bit beforehand, you want me to help you fill in the details more. The Taijitu in the collage[s] stands for the area around your house. Tomorrow, as I understand, you are going to *work* on said house. You really are this time.

bb:

Yes. Might paint the back porch a little later on this week. Fix the gutter system. Can’t keep playing in the woods every single clear day. But there are a bunch of them just ahead. Good time to get some actual work done here.

Hucka D.:

I would recommend. So back to the collage[s], we have the Taijitu symbol as a 3/d sphere. This is the area around your house, a mythology you came up with shortly after moving in. It consists of the Endosphere — black side — and Exosphere — white. As you described in a recent post LINK, this mythology has degenerated into basic nothingness. It is no more.

bb:

No unfortunately. Neighborhood degeneration as I called it in that post. A sad state. We really liked this house [and neighborhood] when we moved in — almost 20 years ago now. Now it’s just filled to the brim with students. It is a student neighborhood now, at least on this side. 20 years ago this wasn’t the case.

Hucka D.:

Well, that symbol applies to the house. Now what is the Celina woman doing with that eye? She is *fixing* Big Bob, that’s what. As you should fix your house. She’s a doer; you’re a don’ter.

bb (smiling):

That is probably true.

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Hucka D.:

But the house is also a shed, like you wanted to build in the Endosphere woods in back of your house. 2 fer 1. And this dichotomy is still in place. You want or need a house. You also desire a shed built from scratch, or relatively so. Like Sam Parr Artist had in her English garden.

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bb:

True. It could be an artist studio.

Hucka D.:

Or perhaps like one even this Celina woman has. She is similar to Sam Parr[ after all].

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bb:

Hucka D., as I’m looking at Collage 02/03 as a whole now, I believe the yellow eye the Celina woman is inserting into the Taijitu represents the shed more than the house, and an artist’s studio more than actually dye in the wool living quarters. There’s a shed in Collage 03, one on George Harrison Branch but upstream from the cascade in the picture by about a mile. This is what I now desire to build in Red Head. And we have a Red Head in the collage as well — the mashup of Anne Shirley and Dorothy Gale near the top center.

Hucka D.:

That is Red Head itself [in Frank Park]. Aquaman.

bb:

I don’t know what that means.

Hucka D.:

Red Head is where it all goes down. Green Stream (stream that cascades through Red Head) is your Appalachian Spring. 4orrin1 tells a lot about Red Head. And visa versa.

For Red Head to succeed it must be both Superman and Aquaman. Original and inverted in one. Wilson-Wheeler if you will. Prior must become present and visa versa. Either or.

bb:

I still don’t understand.

Hucka D.:

The cascades in the collage[s] are as much the Red Head cascades as the ones behind your house now. After all, the Exosphere, the intra-hiking area, is a dead zone, and of no use to you any longer. Everything has shifted to Red Head now, including the dream of building a woodsy shed like you originally envisioned above the cascades of George Harrison Branch — and a shed that is still present at Harrisonia, albeit not of your own design. But you can use it as a model, certainly. And that is why it’s there. How do all these sheds or potential sheds interconnect — blend into each other? That is the question you are actually asking.

bb:

Okay.

Hucka D.:

Someone like Superman had to build the one at Harrisonia, because it was built in the *middle of rhododendron*. It was exactly like someone flew it in from above. You still don’t know how that thing got there.

bb:

No. I don’t.

Hucka D.:

*You* put it there.

bb:

You mean I communicated to someone who put it there. On a mental plane.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb (looking at collage again):

So that would explain the conjunction of that Harrisonia shed and Superman in [Collage 03]. Quilt Rock is beside it, and that was painted by the Celina artist woman once more.

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Hucka D.:

All of these desires[ for a woodsy shed] must coalesce somehow. You draw strength from it. That can help with your present house situation as well.

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Collagesity Update

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Baker enjoys the view at Lake Hans Loso on the Jeogeot continent. A small town has sprung up along its southern shores, which includes a couple of art galleries. Will Baker become a new resident?

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But he still has Minoa’s Collagesity, neglected for a number of weeks now.

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There’s life again in the town’s growing edge gallery: Red Umbrella. A new collage series is taking root. Will the pieces within number 10 again, like with the last 2 such series?

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“Hucka D., if you’re ready I think we should talk about collage 02/03 already, just to get a bearing on what’s to come. So Hucka D. (pause) Hucka?”

Hucka D.:

Here.

bb:

Let’s take the left side first. This would be Collage 02 I suppose.

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Hucka D.:

You have a Celina, Ohio woman, an artist prim and proper, inserting an eye into a yin/yang spherical symbol called the Taijitu. The iris of the eye is yellow. It is suppose to be a fish eye. [One of] the 4 Residents from the other side of the diptych has a yellow eye as well. He looks down [at Drink], while the other Residents look across[ or toward]. The yellow eye in the Taijitu looks up as opposed to down. This is the same eye.

The general setting for both collages is a cascade area just behind your present house in Blue Mountain. This is the first time in a collage of yours that you’ve included a location so close to your home. Yet you haven’t been down there in years, have you?

bb:

2 or 3 at least.

Hucka D.:

It’s time to go back.

bb:

Okay.

Hucka D.:

Anyway, that’s the location. Baker Bloch is positioned on a rock in front of the falls, arms extended. His right hand almost touches the head of the Celina woman artist who holds the big yellow eye. Below her is another picture of the same artist, hard at working painting other stuff, namely Easter related stuff. She has just finished a purple egg and is working on a blue one. We see the same purple and blue egg popsicles to the far left of the collage, which would be the wild, wild west as well.

bb:

Alright.

Hucka D.:

Aquaman[ with his Trident Streams] *use* to be there, standing on the blue egg. Presently it’s Superman positioned there instead. A bunny stands between the 2 eggs, waving merrily at passer bys. He’s a happy Easter bunny. He (or she) and Superman stand the same way.

Another bunny is directly below. It’s a reclining Bugs Bunny from the popular Warner Brothers cartoon series, uttering his most famous line: “What’s Up Doc?”. This is the same name as an important variant album by The Residents standing on rocks in the other half of the overall work. This is *their* bunny. Questions?

bb:

“What’s Up Doc” by The Residents Variants has been used recently in Carrcass-10, Hucka D. And more recently *Chuck* has come to see me. We walked the Bunny Trail over at Frank Park while he was here, talking about audiovisual synchronicities such as Carrcass-10 in the main. I counted 19 rungs on the bridge crossing the brook emptying from Bunny Pond. This is the same as the number of tracks off “What’s Up Doc?”.

Hucka D.:

I hear he has uncovered a body.

bb:

That could be so. At any rate, he’s treating the situation like there’s a body in his back side yard. I suppose there are bodies buried all over the place, especially in ancient places like Europe.

Hucka D.:

Uerope.

bb (looking again):

Big Bob is also in Collage 02, or at least part of his head, including the mouth. The mouth just touches the Celina woman’s head. What’s her name?

Hucka D.:

Marge. Or Jeffries.

bb:

Hmmm.

Hucka D.:

Short for Margerine. Butter isn’t better in this case.

bb:

Good to know.

Hucka D.:

Big Bob is desparately trying to speak[ to Marge]. Buttering her up?

bb:

Dunno, Hucka D. (looks again) It’s his eye she’s holding, after all.

Hucka D.:

He wishes to become whole. Yin and yang together. Taijitu. I like saying that.

bb:

You’re slurring the word, however. Just an observation.

Hucka D.:

I slur a lot of words.

bb:

Anyway, on the right side of Collage 02 we have several images of Superman, with one inverted in color. This brings him quite close to the colors of his colleague in crime fighting: Aquaman. I guess one could say that Superman rules the skies and Aquaman the seas.

Hucka D.:

Correct. Emotions.

bb:

He’s helping free Richard Prior from the rocks in Collage 03. He then flies him away to safety[ in the blue skies]. In a recent blog post I compared Superman to the “I” of TILE and Prior to the “y” of complementary Tyle.

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Hucka D.:

That is correct again. Emotions.

bb:

Accompanying inverted Superman at the right hand top is a mashup of Fairuza Balk and Megan Follows, who played Anne Shirley and Dorothy Gale respectively. They’re in character here. Fairuza wears Megan’s hat — borrows her carrot colored pigtails for a bit.

Hucka D.:

That’s Red Head of course. Your new space. Have you built the Cabin yet?

bb:

Not yet.

Hucka D.:

It’s already there[ anyway]. You can see it if you try.

bb:

Interesting. Inverted Superman kind of covers the awkward section of the mashup of the two girls, Hucka D. [One of] his colors matches the orange hat of Anne. The orange ray from the flag in Collage 03 emits towards this hat as well. Orange points to orange. That’s the flag of Mercer County, which has Celina as the county seat. It is the rainbow. Minus one color.

Hucka D.:

Indigo.

bb:

Could be.

Hucka D.:

The I’s have it.

bb:

I suppose they could.

Hucka D.:

Superman rescues Prior from the Past. He becomes not Prior but Present. This is rescuing a past self, locked in the rocks of time. Drink is the jailkeeper. He holds the keys. He’s a bad ass.

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bb:

He looks the role.

Hucka D.:

Stay away from Drink. He’ll bad ass you.

bb (nonplussed):

I will.

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Hucka D.:

Drink’s straw points down and Prior’s arm points up a bit. They’re very similarly shaped — too much so. They are one in their opposite directions. Red and blue. Obvious. Good work, baker b.

bb:

Thanks. Of course I didn’t do it.

Hucka D.:

Yes you did. Well… yes and no.

bb:

Thanks once more.

Hucka D.:

Then there’s reclining Baker Blinker whose lower part is hidden by the rocks at the cascade. She *is* the cascades. She balances mate Baker Bloch in the left half of the diptych, standing on his rock. This is archetypal male and female energies as well. Taijitu. How’s that?

bb:

Still slurred.

Hucka D.:

Awww. But Baker Blinker is obviously meant to compare to Bugs Bunny on Baker Bloch’s side of the overall work. Both recline. Both are propping themselves up with their right arm and elbow. Is Baker Blinker mimicking Bugs?

bb:

Not sure.

Hucka D.:

Anyway, we know all about the curse of Baker Blinker by Drink from early in the Baker Blinker Blog — her blog. You have your own blog now. Baker Bloch Blog.

bb:

That’s Frank and Herman, Einstein!, yes. The Baker Blinker Blog is my first blog, from 2008-2012. Just adding that in for more comprehension on the part of the reader or readers.

Hucka D.:

You will have a 3rd blog. Then you will be a Whitehead in Da Woods.

bb:

Retired.

Hucka D.:

Yes. You will be surprised. I can’t say stuff.

bb:

Go on.

Hucka D.:

The small cottage to the far left of Collage 03 is currently positioned on a rock in Harrisonia, on the same creek that contains this cascade here but further upstream. About a mile upstream I’m estimating. The stream itself is named Harrison… George Harrison. George Harrison Creek in full. It’s source comes from Herman Park. The source is protected. Harrisonia is not protected. These cascades are *not* protected.

bb:

No. Not at all.

Hucka D.:

The cottage on the rocks here is also the cottage you will build in Red Head when you become a Whitehead.

bb:

I see.

Hucka D.:

And then to complete the description of the diptych we have Quilt Rock, also painted by the Celina woman artist, like she painted the similar quilt-like pants of the waving Easter bunny on the opposite side[ of the diptych]. These 2 are suppose to be associated. Tiny Superman poses in front of each. Do you know why?

bb (admitting):

I don’t know why.

Hucka D.:

He *lives* in the cottage. That’s a hint.

bb:

Still: nothing.

Hucka D.:

It’s *you*. You are Superman. And Aquaman. You are both. Skies and seas. Yin and yang. Get it?

bb:

A little.

Hucka D.:

Who is Drink?

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Collage 02/03 tests (con.)

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Collage 02/03 tests

Amazingly quick diptych! Rough draft still, however…

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Added, balancing Superman (extreme left):

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Inverting the colours of this balancing Superman appears to turn him into Aquaman.

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Megan Shirley Fairuza Dorothy doesn’t know *what* to think of all this.

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Aquaman…

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… w/ trident…

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Immediate concerns

Should be a wetter week in Blue Mountain. Frank and Herman Parks are probably closed off until the weekend. That’ll put me at April 18th, but I might have to go to Mythopolis to help mom that day. Spring is progressing (!). I must think of how to use the Whitehead X-ing environment during warmer weather. I’ve created or traced the Contemplation Loop of the Crossing last August, I believe. Can I walk it more this summer? What about Concreek, which was a successful summer focus in 2012?

Living in the woods during the summer is not an option now. Maybe when I retire I can camp out again. But I have a history of this. In, let’s see, 1982, I lived from May through the middle of September in a tent in woods just west of Blue Mountain State College. Then in May or June 1984 I even built a kind of primitive teepee at another location near Blue Mountain, although I only “lived” there for a month. I stuck an umbrella on top to keep out the rain. Another stay in a tent ensued in August 1984 at roughly the same spot. I remember it being an extremely dry month, rare for August certainly. I have not taken pictures of these places for the blog. Maybe I should. Oh, there’s one of the tent location here (first 5 photos; but I didn’t produce any text for this particular post 😦 ):

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Michael Two created several habitats in the local parks, including what I call Michael Won in Frank Park (where I first met him) and then Michael Too as well on a ridge of Wealthy Mtn. in Herman Park.

And now someone is building a teepee at Whitehead Crossing — not Michael Two in all likelihood. Another parallel self? I think so in a way, in a manner. One of my goals before retirement is to secure a location for a woods cabin or shed or equivalent. Perhaps a teepee will suffice.

When I worked at Maynard Jackson’s Cafeteria in the Blue Mountain Mall during the mid-80’s, a number of my friends were living in teepees, an inspiration for my own more humble attempt. Toy happenings have kinda replaced the desired for forest living quarters. But where is all this heading, I ask myself? I’m going to retire not too soon but not too far off in the future. I’ll have more time for camping. The wife will probably not join me for many of these excursions. How about just *buying* a cabin next to the woods. It doesn’t seem the same. Still I must think of practicality.

The woods stays ended when Edna and I began dating in 1986. Houses became a focus. Eventually we bought one, where we still live. A big attraction was the woods to our north, west, south however, that I’d already explored a bit beforehand. This is the intra-hiking space I mentioned in a recent blog post, the one that has been deactivated by neighborhood degeneration. And with it, the dreams of a permanent home in Blue Mountain have evaporated too.

A key word: permanence. Perhaps Frank and Herman Parks can provide it instead.

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Warmer Weather Hiking

Middletown/Ashville wilds are basically closed up to me until October. Even moreso for Mythopolis: November. I’m stuck with Blue Mountain now in terms of off trail hiking. I’m going to try to extend this into May up here.

What closes them up? The heat for one thing. Wearing shorts is not an ideal situation for off trail (Blue Mountain has a lot of mountain nettles, for example). Gnats for another. And a big one: poison ivy/oak. This goes triple for Middletown. This goes triple times triple for Mythopolis. Up here the poison ivy is around but scarcer. There’s some in Whitehead Crossing, for example, but you can pick your way around it, especially if you have a rough idea of its location beforehand. Growing up in Mythopolis was quite different. There you’d have vast fields of nothing but poison ivy sometimes to deal with. That’s a huge plus for Blue Mountain even in comparison with Middletown, where the poison ivy situation is between the two.

Then we come to the wildlife critters, and I think especially here of snakes. Don’t want to step on a snake in the undergrowth. Now Blue Mtn. has it’s share of snakes for sure, but again Mythopolis trumps it, and Middletown, once more, lies between the two in terms of the risk of stumbling upon one of the feared creatures. When I lived in Durham I found that snakes were all over the place — no chance of practical off trail hiking during summer months atall. In Blue Mtn. — Whitehead X-ing once more — you can get away with it.

So: gnats, poison, snakes. That’s the big 3 in terms of living things. I suppose we should add mosquitoes in with gnats, but they’re not as everpresent.

Other critters I’m semi worried about are bears, but I’ve only run across one in all my hiking days, and I encountered him/her on a designated hiking trail. This is one reason I don’t do a lot of off trail hiking at Granddaddy Mtn. Another is conservancy issues. Bees/hornets are also something to think about, especially ground nests. Wolves/coyotes are around; foxes. And I’ve found what is most likely a skunk hole recently at Drink Lake that I need to avoid in the future. Raccoons might be worth pondering.

The woods are just a more dangerous place in warmer weather. The now foliated trees do not allow rocks to dry as quickly, raising chances of slipping on them when wet. And heavy rain, often unforecasted, comes more frequently in the summer.

And so I don’t accomplish a lot of off trail hiking even in relatively safer Blue Mountain. Now *England* might be different. There’s not many snakes. There is *no poison ivy/oak*. The heat is much less of a problem, and I assume the gnats and skeeters as well. England would be *ideal* for summer, intra-woods hiking. If you had enough woods.

And that’s where the advantage shifts to Blue Mountain, once more. Blue Mtn. has woods in spades. Whitehead Crossing is still a center.

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Still rock’n!

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