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Wealthy Mtn. 04

Not the greatest picture, but here’s what might best represent the head or source of Green Oz Creek, where two seeps merge to form this wide-ish, gradual rocky cascade.

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Interesting overhead shot of the lower part of same cascade. The central white object is a rock. This is taken from a steep bank to the south of Green Oz Creek.

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The source of Green Oz Creek from the opposite direction. The blue object is some kind of water bucket, perhaps formerly set up as a water source for local livestock. I speculate this because the upper part of Green Oz Creek lies within a fenced in cow pasture. In fact the middle section of the creek lies within a cow pasture as well, and only the lower part, toward the mouth, remains bovine free.

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Here’s a primitive bridge made of branches and a warped wooden plank crossing one of the two seeps presently feeding the formation of Green Oz Creek. If you look closely, you can also see this bridge in the background of this post’s first photo.

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And these two conjoined trees, one live and one dead, also appear in the same photo to the right, perched directly above the stream head.

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We now move back to Yellow Down and the large rock found in its center. As of the morning of 9/17/13, I’m calling this I. Rock. No spirits showing up in this particular shot. 😮 The rock doesn’t seem to be staring back at me as much, either… or is it?

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I also revisited the Tinsity/Wallace region on this particular hike, and found that I had absentmindedly left my plastic coffee cup from the day before on one of its two, larger rocky beaches — at the place I call Wallace. The thing is, something appeared to have interacted with the cup in the meantime, with the lid bent up. Was it a raccoon? If so, they also dug a *hole* about 5 inches deep and wide just in back of the cup where I found it this day. Why would a raccoon dig a substantial hole here? Was it trying to bury or hide the object? Of course, my mind starts thinking about aliens when anything out of the norm happens in the woods these days. The wife quickly speculated along the same lines when I returned home and told her about this most recent mystery event. No other obviously dug holes were found on this beach.

And then to punctuate the oddness, as it were, immediately after seeing the quite curious hole, I spied a dragonfly floating in the water near the tip of the beach’s projection. Thinking it was dead, I found a small stick and pulled it to shore. However, it started to stir slightly as I did this; it was obviously still alive, if weak. I managed to maneuver a leaf underneath it and then set it next to the dug hole. If the dragonfly were instead dead, I was planning to put it into the cup I left at the beach and take it home.

As you can tell from the below picture, this appears to be a pretty large example of the species. Those translucent green eyes were something else to look at. I remember now that my Second Life avatar Karoz has dragon eyes. Is this bug an aspect of Wallace himself in some fashion or way?

Is it a *trained* dragonfly? At any rate, when I returned to the same spot a number of hours later the insect was gone, supposedly having gathered its strength and flown away in the meantime.

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Dragonfly (left center) and hole. I positioned a clear marble that I had in my camera bag next to the dragonfly, thinking that might give it some kind of comfort in its dying moments (when I thought it still might be dying). This also gives you an idea of the size of the bug — pretty big.

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Dusk at Wealthy Mountain.

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Wealthy Mtn. 03: Yellow Down

Pretty amazing rock found in the midst of Green Oz Creek just before the lower entrance into Dark Space. Is it yet another one of those ancient artifacts, perhaps encoded with information about Green Oz, or at least the Dark Space part? Time might tell. Its texture reminds me a bit of satellite photographs of the Martian surface. Compare with here.

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Standing above the rock.

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A brick was discovered beside Green Oz Creek about 10 yards downstream from the rock pictured above. Remnant from an ancient road?

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Peering into the lower entrance of Dark Space from Yellow Down, with the rock seen in photos 1 and 2 above being the furthest gray specimen back. Interesting vine above the Dark Space “entrance” as well from this angle.

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Another more interesting stone; close to the brick. I have a name for this one: Rib Rock, because its shape reminds me of this curved bone, or a series of such. Actually I think the phrase I’m grasping for is “rib slab”. The rock can be wiggled back and forth like such a slab — or one could say it *rocks* back and forth. I also think of the Flintstone’s car and the giant dinosaur rib slab that topples it over during the closing credits of every episode.

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Yd Falls again. Seems like every time I pass through Yellow Down I have to take a picture of it.

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And now we return to I. Rock. Yes, I have a name for this one now as well. I. Rock means several things. The rock…

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… as seen from this angle, appears to have not one but several “eyes” that stare back at the viewer.

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I count 3 or 4 in this one. Can you see them? I’ll point them out in a future post, along with something else. Leaving the rock alone for now, take a good look at the photo above and below. Something very peculiar seems to be going on, so much so that I think I’ll reserve talk about it for a future post of its own (along with pointing out the rock eyes). For now, I’ll say it has to do with another meaning of the name “I. Rock”, and that is as a statement of consciousness. “I. Rock” translates, in this manner, to “I (am a) rock.” Or perhaps even going further, that the rock knows that it rocks, or that it is a very cool and meaningful rock. I really have no doubt of this consciousness factor.

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Details from the top of I. Rock. And here’s another crucial term when considering this formation: microcosm. The rock is topped with a layer of soil from which sprouts a number of different plants, including the moss (and violets?) below.

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The other side of the “face” of I. Rock, dominated by a crosshatching effect.

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Closeup of the face. Notice there is a mouth of sorts as well. Reptilian.

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I. Rock is situated about 10-15 yards from Green Oz Creek. The grass decorated rock in the foreground provides a great viewing spot for the surroundings.

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Nearing the lower end of Yellow Down now, with Green Oz Creek soon to slide into impenetrable rhododendron as it continues toward Health Lake.

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Wealthy Mtn. 02: Tinsity

Interesting moss rimmed end of a stick projecting itself above the flow of Green Oz Creek at Wallace. A portion of Wallace’s rocky beach can be seen in the foreground. We’ll be talking about that beach quite a bit in coming posts.

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Wallace’s rocky beach in the foreground, and Tinsity’s similarly sized beach more in the background (“downtown” Tinsity to its right). Also in the foreground is seen the as yet unnamed murky or stagnant pool of water originally found about 2 years ago in my first explorations of the Tinsity area.

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Interesting bank in Wallace originally pictured here as well. Hucka D. states this is most likely the remains of some kind of ancient city wall. The Wall.

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Closeup of the stagnant pool. Hucka D. is now indicating that the name is S. Pool, or perhaps Ace Pool. It is the result of a Tinsity/Wallace scientific experiment gone wrong.*

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Main part of Tinsity, or what could be dubbed “The Avenue”.

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Standout-ish rock on Tinsity’s beach. Another ancient artifact?

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Barrier tree dividing both Wallace and Tinsity from the Bones area, considered somewhat haunted. Compare with here and here.

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Alignment of 3 rocks in Dark Space. We are moving below Greenup through this space (called “Brownie” in ancient tongues) to reach Yellow Down and I. Rock (yes I have a name for it now!).

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* This same experiment may have caused Wallace’s several sinks holes found near the entrance to the town from the north, just before the Wallace Hump House.

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Wealthy Mtn. 01

More isolated rock in a Wealthy Mtn. cow pasture, looking considerably like a tombstone.

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Sideview of same.

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A little further up the mountain but looking in the same direction.

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Interesting tree on a platform ridge about 4200 feet up now. Not much further to the top walking along this same path.

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The top itself. I’ve already taken a photo of this particular tree for the Baker Blinker Blog (LINK).

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As explained in that same blog entry, the very top of the mountain is enclosed by an elliptical rock wall, perhaps 100 feet in circumference.

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Loose rocks adorning a larger rock at the very tip top of Wealthy Mtn., near the center of the region enclosed by the above pictured oval wall.

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Looking off into the distance toward strangely aligned mountain peaks. Ley line?

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Whatever, it was certainly another beautiful day on Wealthy Mountain!

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Man

“Isn’t No. 9 the story about you the Tiler, baker b.?”

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Hucka D.:

That was Bob. Sorry, Chuck. (pause) Sorry, CTA. Again. You didn’t answer. baker b.?

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CTA:

We don’t know where he went. It’s like he turned invisible.

Hucka D.:

Imaginary?

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bb:

Hi.

Hucka D.:

Hey. (pause) Where you been?

bb:

Studying that Man Square below a bit. Have any comments?

Hucka D.:

Man, you had us worried.

bb:

Stop it.

Hucka D.:

Okay. How was your day?

bb:

Pretty good. Co-worker and I are getting along again. Momentary lapse of reason.

CTA:

Wish you were here.

Chuck:

Umma G. Umma.

bb:

Thanks again people.

Hucka D.:

But you ask about Man. You are the Tiler. You become one with him in Number 9. You turn Imaginary. You go through Apeman to Tin S. Man to Superman to Imaginary Man. Apeman is in the past, Superman the future. Tin S. Man is present; Imaginary Man is present.

bb:

I’ve lost contact with Tin S. Man.

Hucka D.:

*One* Tin S. Man. There are others.

bb:

And this Tin S. Man is also Imaginary Man, since I don’t know his identity (still) even though he knows mine, if he chooses to really think hard and remember (smile).

Hucka D.:

That was a set up flaw. You had to give up rainbowology, but now you have Number 9 and know more about Lisa the Vegetarian — her first true love.

Future. Are there others?

bb:

I’m going to return to Green Oz Creek this weekend, Hucka D. Take some better pictures in lighter situations.

Hucka D.:

Lighter sunlight you mean. Not lighter like float away lighter.

bb:

Right.

Hucka D.:

Skillet the Squirrel is Number 2 to Mouse’s Number 1. Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker. You. You must be Tin S. Man (as well), along with Ray Davies of The Kniks. 4 in 1. Foreign One. You see? 4 Men.

bb:

Maybe. Yeah.

Hucka D.:

When The Kinks become The Kniks, then you have Number 0 and Number 9 together. 4 Men.

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bb:

Oh Hucka… check out what my neighbor created (speaking of 4 people). She’s a funny one.

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Hucka D.:

Everything has meaning in little VWX Town. Good work.

bb:

It’s a special place. But I’m (still) gonna destroy it. Soon.

Hucka D.:

Special place. Special destruction.

CTA:

I haven’t even been to a town meeting!

bb:

Hi CTA. Northside representative, I suppose.

CTA:

Born and raised there (!)

bb:

Do you know Lisa the Vegetarian?

CTA:

If she attends I must attend.

bb:

Hmmm.

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Hucka D.:

Don’t you think the 4 members of The Kniks represent undifferentiated–ness. Prebirth, before separation of 4 tile colors. Then Number 9 is birth of abstraction. The 4 Men separated into their 4 Corners.

bb:

Tin S. Man must have known of this 4 in 1, this Foreign One.

Hucka D.:

He referred to it/him plainly and simply as Number 9. Plain and simple.

bb:

So Tin S. Man would stroll into his workplace at Tinsity from his castle and start jabbering about his very good friend Number Nine who he had seen the night before.

Hucka D.:

Precisely.

bb:

No one would meet Number Nine. No one knew who it was.

Hucka D.:

It was an abstraction.

bb:

He and Number 9 would talk about Skillet Swamp. They remember the Swamp before Tin S. Man extended an Olive Branch. They remembered the bad to the bone Swamp. Monster. Travis/Randy.

Hucka D.:

So there.

bb:

Sorry (once more). I was daydreaming.

Hucka D.:

About your Co-worker. You’ll get along. Pink Floyd.

bb:

Back to Number 9 (though). There was discussion (in the office) behind boss Tin S. Man’s back about Number 9 being imaginary and not existing.

Hucka D.:

Which it didn’t, of course. But it did. Does.

bb:

I wonder where (Wallace’s) Wallace is in all this? But to back up, Number 9 is obviously a lot about Tin S. Man and his Tinsity. Tin S. Man, as the 11th (LINK), is a direct continuation of Dark Side of the Rainbow’s 10. Tin.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Very important.

bb:

Dark Side of the Rainbow ends in 10 or Tin — number or metal I mean.

Hucka D.:

Yes, I can read it (what you’re saying).

bb:

Tin S. Man must control Dark Side of the Rainbow, then. Like a beehive.*

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* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/trivia

A scene was filmed in which the Tin Man was turned into a “human beehive” by the Wicked Witch; after he crushes a bee, the Tin Man cries and rusts his jaw shut, then has to be oiled by Dorothy to get his jaw working again. This scene was cut and so the scene of Dorothy and her companions that comes after where the “beehive” scene had to be flipped to match their continuity in the earlier scene, causing them to appear blurred slightly.

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Recent Hikes…

Shot of large rock near Green Oz Creek, in the section of Green Oz I’ve been calling Yellow Down in this here blog. I need to eventually give it a name. Just to remind, Green Oz represents the middle ground of Green Oz Creek from source to mouth, a more open area with numerous fields roughly centered by Tinsity. It seems naturally divided into two larger section: Greenup to the north and Yellow Down to the south, with a smaller, central patch of rhododendron that appears to be a divider between the two called Brownie (or Dark Space). Tinsity lies on the upper edge of Brownie, or, oppositely, on the southern limit of Greenup.

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This is a photo looking over Skillet Swamp just north, in turn, from Tinsity.

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Heavy summer rains have seemingly washed away this old avatar bridge, but also created a new crossing seen below.

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Beautiful meadow between Green Oz and the Quartz Brook Valley to its northwest, which I also revisited the next day but didn’t take any photos of. While the leaves are still on the trees, the woods tend to be pretty dark, making picture taking difficult. I’m not a big fan of outdoor flash photography.

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Variety of Stuff

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Started to work on carrcasses again after almost a 3 month layoff. I call the newest one “Number Nine” (subject to change), apparently a close companion to “8 Ball” basically completed in June before we left for England. As usual, I can’t give out many details on these, unfortunately. I *can* talk about it using more abstracted images.

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MORE TEXT SOON.
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Strange I was the first to mention Burnet on the Synchronicity Phenomena board, not Don, who later actually lived there.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SynchronicityPhenomena/message/14266

This was the 4th (Don, from Oct. 2004)…

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SynchronicityPhenomena/message/19549

I just read this post last night, and then today saw an actual coon in the woods, and in the very spot I thought that Mossman as a surrogate Daniel Boone might have spent his last days. No lie. See this post for further information on Gene Fade and his Missouri [link soon].

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Byng 02

(continued from “Byng 01”)

Rock Island about 50 yards or so upstream from Lion’s Roar. One could certainly make an argument that it’s not an island per se, but just an interior conglomeration of rocks more often than not protruding above Byng’s water level.

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Interesting orange tinted rock patterns within an unnamed, small cascade just above Rock Island.

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Shots into the upper reaches of Byng’s Kansas region, which has taken on added significance in the meantime:

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I’ve found a path linking Missouri on the ridge to the west (same ridge with the Kentucky platform further up, once more) to this rock filled and more spread out, circle shaped part of Byng I am standing in for the below picture. Just downstream from here, we can spy the dark silhouette of a large, dead tree that perhaps represents the center of 6 Minute Hill. More on that soon as well.

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Larger, square-ish rock from the same area.

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Upper Kansas flora.

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Interesting crisscross of tree trunks above Byng… again taken within the same circular Byng location that the Missouri Trail leads to from the western ridge.

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Interesting trunk spanning a more marshy part of 6 Minute Hill.

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The central dead tree mentioned before, viewed from the opposite direction.

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Byng 01

A greenish mushroom that has partially collapsed since I first spied it at the beginning of the Missouri Trail of Byng several days ago. I barely recognized it, in fact. The surface aspect of mushrooms seem to have a short span of existence. That’s something I look forward to studying closer when I retired in *7 1/2* years, barring illness. And even with illness (not going to happen) it will still be 7 1/2 total years, since I have bunches of sick leave accumulated. Not that I don’t like my job, but I have things to do… besides keeping up with this blog, which I intend to continue until I can’t. Frank and Herman, Einstein! is long term. Maybe beyond 7 1/2 years. 🙂

Since the below spot marks the point where you can enter Kansas (middle Byng Creek) or Missouri (ridge west of Byng), some might call it Kansas City. I’m not sure I’m ready to run with that particular pack yet.

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Holey Moley! Is that a wood fairy I took a picture of yesterday?!? This was a bit up the Missouri Trail, where you can see Lion’s Roar (central dark patch) in the background. I believe I took the picture with a flash (automatically set to adjust for lighting), but still I don’t see how it could illuminate a whole object like that. Could be wrong. Didn’t see anything like a fairy (or big bug) when taking the picture.

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Close-up of the “fairy”. You can definitely see the wings here, and it appears to be flying at a goodly rate, or at least the wings, if that’s what they are, appear to be vibrating at such.

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A short hike uphill brings us to the flatter platform of Missouri, not nearly as big as the Kentucky platform further up the same ridge but its only other identifiable platform area nonetheless that I can tell. The name Missouri comes from its proximity to both Kentucky to the west and Kansas to the east. Illinois and Iowa may figure into this as well, and it’s rumored (so far in Byng story) that Kansas’ Rock Island, which I’ll get to in a moment in this photo series, actually comes from a hidden mystery land of Illinois or Iowa or both, perhaps originally issuing from the area of The Impass above Kansas on Byng. Now factor into this seed mythology the Missouri platform situated not far above Rock Island.

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Details from Missouri.

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This photos depicts a tree seeming to grow almost horizontally out of the ground, but on second glance appears to be dead. Unusual.

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Now we come to another oddity of the day. As I was shuffling around the Missouri platform taking pictures, I noticed not one but two unusual sounds. One sounded like somewhat garbled or muffled gunshot from a distance hill, and at a peculiarly regular rate. The second at first seem to come from the other direction, and sounded like a benign chirp from some exotic bird. It took a while to understand that the two sounds actually came from one source: a raccoon perched perhaps 50-60 feet above me in a tree. The sounds were directed toward *me*!

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When I returned home last night, I looked up raccoon sounds on the Internet, and discovered they can make an astonishingly wide variety of such. I never found an audio match for the more threatening of the two sounds, however. I didn’t feel like I was in immediate danger, but I also knew that to continue up to Kentucky, my original plan, would have me passing through this very spot on the way back. I didn’t like the idea of encountering this raccoon again, and so I decided to instead descend back down the ridge and head over to Kansas and Byng instead. Below we have a pic from the still extant pots neatly tucked into an inner pocket of Lion’s Roar’s large, overhanging rock.

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Byng’s Periwinkle Falls, just above Lion’s Roar.

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(continued in “Byng 02”)

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Plans

Go back to the Gene Fade Mountain’s 80 post art work and look closely at posts 00, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, perhaps comparing them with the 8 (or 9) points of the Burnet “octagon”, if end is looped back into beginning. We’ve already made a connection between the 80 posts rock work and Kentucky’s Bee Line (through Fade Mtn.’s [failed] Weaving Spot). Is it now also connected to Whitehead X-ing’s Contemplation Loop, given that the weaving spot was also such a loop for at least one day? Must compare lengths of all. Something will arise.

Today I plan to go back to Missouri and also Kentucky further up the same ridge and take some notes, perhaps some c[h]ord. Will have to be 70 yards in length. I’m thinking of using wire. Will a train track be built at Kentucky? Missouri?

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