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.
Interesting orange tinted rock patterns within an unnamed, small cascade just above Rock Island.
Shots into the upper reaches of Byng’s Kansas region, which has taken on added significance in the meantime:
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.
Larger, square-ish rock from the same area.
Upper Kansas flora.
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.
Interesting trunk spanning a more marshy part of 6 Minute Hill.
The central dead tree mentioned before, viewed from the opposite direction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Details from Missouri.
This photos depicts a tree seeming to grow almost horizontally out of the ground, but on second glance appears to be dead. Unusual.
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*!
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.
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?
The weather is getting warmer, and I believe further exploration of the Byng area for now might be blocked. My promised pictures of that place today turned out not to be, since I forgot my frigg’n memory card before heading into the woods. So instead I decided to go over to old, reliable Whitehead Crossing, but from The Way this time. Standard nomenclature needs to be reviewed for the area. Whitehead X-ing is so accessible because you can get to it through a number of ways (and so not just through The Way, har). It is definitely a center. Today I walked the Contemplation Loop quite a bit once more, but a slower pace than on previous visits. Will read more of my older Whitehead X-ing notes after finishing this post.
Hucka D.:
No pictures today? Aww.
bb:
Sorry. Stupid memory. *Mine*.
Hucka D.:
Contemplation Loop is connecting you to the woods, the wild. I heard you heard coyotes. Maybe wolves. But I think coyotes.
bb:
Yeah.
Hucka D.:
You just need to walk it as much as possible. Missouri is closed for now. Missouri will change into something else in a bit. Different name, I mean.
bb:
It’s an amazing ridge. And a path that I could not have predicted up that ridge beginning at the very start of the Lion’s Roar/Kansas path. Crazy.
Hucka D.:
That is Missouri, leading to Kentucky. You should study that state[ again].
bb:
Apologies once more about the pictures.
Hucka D.:
Soon it will open up. Lion’s Roar and Kansas too.
bb:
Who lived in Missouri?
Hucka D.:
*You*.
bb:
Hmmm… how about toy avatars. For that place and also Lion’s Roar/Kansas.
Hucka D.:
That beginning of the path, presently guarded by a greenish mushroom, is the gateway to the future. Missouri future. Through it you can gain quicker access to Kentucky and beyond. Diagonal. This formerly hidden trail will lead you further than ever before. Future.
First, a photo taken day before yesterday from Kentucky of the Byng Creek area. I’ve visited Kentucky each of the past 3 days, and plan to return there again today after work. More photos will be forthcoming I assume. The below shot is framed by the 2 Lovey Dovey trees on the northern edge of the natural platform, with the Bee Line forming between them just in the foreground and extending another 60-70 yards into the background. Basically impossible to see it in the photo without knowing where to look, but I thought I’d insert it here anyway to generate a bit of text about this very important, apparently psychic *diagonal* across Kentucky. And yes I understand there may now be a tie-in with Heterocera’s The Diagonal I’ve been chatting about so much lately.
We then switch to Whitehead Crossing, the apparent center of centers still of my woodsy extracurricular activity. Below we have a photo taken from the head of No Title Spring, looking down on Grey Seal in the distance. Once more not the best of shots, but thought I’d add it into the mix anyway, since that spot is part of a small list of proposed mediation locations within Whitehead Crossing.
And now we come to the Contemplation Loop, the biggest development in Whitehead Crossing for quite some time, perhaps since Hucka Doobie fished 50 bottles out of Whitehead “Crik” several years back. All remaining photos of the current post come from this loop, designed as a place to pace in a circular manner in order to establish a bridge between man and woods. Before the Contemplation Loop, Whitehead X-ing was too isolated from man (i.e., me). Now its coming into line — through a path line. And, yeah, I’ve thought about a connection between *this* path, a line in the woods, and the Bee Line from Kentucky, which has also become a sort of path since I’ve walked up and down it a number of times now.
At a normal pace, Contemplation Loop takes a bit over a minute to complete. To the east is Grey Seal, which you head directly toward in a straighter stretch of it.
To the south is Whitehead Creek, but, even closer, Little Whitehead. Big Log is also clearly visible from the Loop. Below we have a picture not of Big Log but another, smaller fallen tree lavishly decorated with ferns and extending almost all the way from Contempation Loop to Little Whitehead.
Another fallen tree parallels much of Little Whitehead just behind the log pictured above from this angle.
… much time tonight, Hucka D. I took Liquor out in the woods today and created some photos. Not very good ones, but still I’m out in the wood.
Hucka D.:
Maybe you should just talk to the reader tonight.
bb:
Okay, we can try that.
Well, today was a pretty decent hiking day for a change. The past two days, actually, I’ve been able to re-visit Lion’s Roar for the first time in probably 1/2 a year or so. Not much has changed there, which is exactly what I’d expect, given that it’s tucked away in the deep woods with probably no visitors except for me. Pots still there; bottles still there. I could reset up Lion’s Roar in a short time. However, the place is wetter than I remember — I don’t think that’s really a change per se, but just something to do with the seasons. I set up Lion’s Roar in the fall, and under dryer conditions when the leaves are off the trees and direct sunlight hits the place with greater frequency. But the bigger news today is finding a small but flat platform area a little above Lion’s Roar on the ridge directly west of it. A place for a tent or even small structure if I wished. This is the same ridge that Kentucky, a much larger (if not necessarily flatter) platform area, is situated upon further up. I also re-visted Kentucky both yesterday and today, and was able to eyeball the Bee Line again from various angles. It still seems to be a legitimate phenomenon.
Is it time to give up my virtual reality town? Not sure. I have about 2 weeks to decide whether to renew September’s tier. If I desert VWX Town, I most likely will not be able to recreate something that extensive in Second Life. What I’ll do if this happens is keep the Lama rental property that the Power Tower Gowlery exists upon, as well as Gallery Jack containing earlier collages. And just delete the rest.
Hucka D.:
You better call a town meeting before you pull the plug. What about The Table?
bb:
The Table in VWX Town is not the *real* Table. Thanks for showing back up again.
Hucka D.:
You’re welcome. Think long and hard about giving up VWX Town.
bb:
Herman and Frank Parks are opening up again. That has to be the focus now. The focus for this blog through me.
Hucka D.:
True (pause).
bb:
So back to the review — Hucka you can hang out still if you wish: Today I also went to Bill Mountain and hiked past the infamous Rust Spot. The road was wet, wet, wet — almost impassable up to the place. I wondered even if the aliens made it this way so they could have more privacy on their mountain.
Hucka D.:
Yes, that is what happened. You shouldn’t or don’t need to go up there for a while. You have the other side of the road.
bb:
That’s right. Today I also walked down TILE Road in Herman Park, which was fun. That was *early*. And then I’ve also visited Whitehead Crossing itself a couple of times in the last week, and plan to go back tomorrow, perhaps early once more.
Hucka D.:
Do that. So where are you going to set up the train tracks the next time?
bb:
Whitehead Crossing?
Hucka D.:
You’re asking me?
bb:
Um… maybe.
Hucka D.:
If you’re finally getting back to Frank and Herman Park mythology…
Hucka D. is not here. Instead it’s Hucka B., Hucka The Bee. Burnet.
bb:
Are you not Hucka D., then? You sound like Hucka D. Not sure what you look like.
Hucka D.:
Here I am. In the background. Of Nowheresville.
bb:
Like the nothing background or backdrop for Jasper 07.
Hucka D.:
Yes. And, yeah, it’s Hucka D. Just making a point.
bb:
Thanks. So I think the octagonal shaped building next to the master location of Burnet — Joe’s Garage — is a Zappa reference pure and simple. A future Zappa tiling.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Better get to Jasper 08.
bb:
Thanks again. So in the Jasper 08 collage, we have a flag with a D inside a diamond that I believe stands for any sim along The Diagonal, starting with Dierle.* In this case, it stands for Burnet, the 10th sim up from Dierle if we count the latter as the first.
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
That the octagon building Joe’s Garage is there beside the master location of this particular sim, and that it represents the main building of the associated spaceport, called *Washburne* or Washtown* in the land description [ but not the sign on the front], is no accident. This resonates with the flooding seen in Jasper 08 as well, a flood seeming to head straight for the octagon shape in *that* collage and the boy encased in such. The boy with the single, giant eyeball in place of a head. Don’t you think Hucka D.?**
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
We know the orange octagon also stands for Billfork and its 8 major nodes, and also a 9th which has escaped, just as the hummingbird — which is the same as a martin according to collage interpretations — has escaped from the octagon and is flying against the tide of the flood in this collage.
Hucka D.:
Yes sir.
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“This is Jasper 08.”
Hucka D.:
This is Jasper 08.
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* We know this because the row of similar tiles in Jasper 07 has just been associated with the sims of this Diagonal, starting with Dierle. Also of note: the Burnet/32/32/32 master location is exactly one-*eighth* into the sim from the southwest corner, since 256/32 = 8. Another reference to 8, then. Reciprocal.
** A rainy day is sometimes referred to as “a wash” as well.
Even the foreground tile of the picture is adorned with a “D” (the logo of the Detroit Tigers, seen on all subsequent tiles as well extending into the background), just as the first sim on The Diagonal is Dierle, and associated with the letter “D” in the above grid diagram and also in the the microcosmic replica of The Diagonal in Westside’s Church of The Diagonal (below pic; far left letter).
In looking further at Jasper 07, there’s no real doubt in my mind that this *is* a representation of the future, extended version of The Diagonal. Jasper 07 partially concerns — consciously, that is — the early version of The Diagonal, known only in its “Rubi exclusive” state then. See here for an interpretive post concerning Jasper 07, also from 2009.* And see here, once more, for my 2008 series about the Rubi aspect of The Diagonal if you wish.
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We switch subjects to VWX Town’s ties to the actual (*non*-virtual) Whitehead Crossing, or “WX” without the “V”, as it were. I see the link now mainly made through the big grey seal perched on a segment of the Power Tower Gowlery, an obvious and also conscious representation of WX’s pivotal Grey Seal (Grey Rock + Seal Stone). The stream below the virtual grey seal may also stand for WX’s Whitehead Brook, Little Whitehead, and No Name Spring one and all, as the Grey Seal rock formation lies relatively close to each.
Admittedly, there’s a tension between just giving up the virtual version of Whitehead Crossing — which actually has little to do with the real version except for the connections listed just above — and keeping it into October and perhaps beyond. On the one hand, I’m obviously going to be focusing more on the outdoors and Frank and Herman Parks for the next several months, taking time and energy away from Second Life. On the other hand, we have the growing story of The Diagonal, an exterior energy source for VWX Town that ties it to the whole continent of Heterocera and beyond. I’ll just have to play the two directions against each other for a while longer and see what happens. At any rate I’m certainly pleased about progress made on an interpretation of The Diagonal so far. It may even outstrip Jeogeot mysticism (Big E/Schwa, etc.) in the long run. And to close, I’d like to thank my virtual neighbor Veyot for testing out aspects of The Diagonal and calling it a very interesting theory. 🙂
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* In the post, I say of this collage and central image the following:
The overall shape of the orange tiled surface, in combination with the circular shape containing the keyhole at the top of the collage, is also keyhole shaped, Hucka D. The shape runs from the very top to the very bottom of the collage. This collage also happens to be 1024 pixels wide and 682 pixels high, making a relationship of 3:2 between the sides. 1024 is the size of the parcel I just rented in Klein, Hucka D [made up, as well, originally of 2 side-by-side 512 parcels]. The middle of the orange tile lies about 512 pixels from either side as well; exact center of the collage left-to-right, then…. This despite the fact that the overall shape of Jasper 07 is not based on any found photo this time, Hucka D. It is instead *tiled* from an edited picture of a toy, found in a search for Rookwood+tiles…
The last Frank/Herman Park related post of this blog was created June 10, where I discussed further ramifications of finding a diamond shaped rock at Whitehead Crossing. All posts beyond this, up until (and including) this one, have instead dwelt on Wiltshire, England, where I spent the last 2 weeks of June. Amazing! But back to the point.
The last Frank/Herman Park related post I mentioned:
On June 9th, perhaps when I was preparing this last F/H post, a diamond shaped crop circle formed in a field just below the famous Alton Barnes white horse. Only today have I looked up more info on the crop circle, because on the surface, it looks quite manmade and artificial — an amateur effort, one could say. But maybe not. In contrast, the diamond shaped rock I found at Whitehead Crossing the week before was very regular and delineated. It was a true diamond, very similar to the one in the midst of the Arkansas flag I also reproduce in that 6/10 blog post.
But something else has come up in the meantime. The same field that gave us the diamond crop circle of 6/9 also produced, during my stay in England, another crop circle, which has some more surface oddities attached to it. This is the circle I’m talking about, which is a true circle on the perimeter. I was probably one of the first half dozen to dozen people to see this crop circle, which later morphed into a phase 2 (a certain percentage of crop circles have additional phases like this). Red Collie, who I’ve learned to trust to a large degree in discussions of crop circle meanings, has this to say about it:
At Stanton St. Bernard on June 21, 2013, we saw a very clever field image which resembles a “reel of magnetic tape”:
Six angular numbers were coded into that “tape” in the order 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 9 when reading inward from the outside. This scheme of coding is almost the same as that used at Barbury Castle on June 1, 2008 (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk), except now each angle of the spiral codes for a number using the formula n x 50o instead of n x 36o.
In light of the diamond crop circle – Whitehead Crossing diamond rock synchronicity mentioned above, I took a closer look at the articles and comments for the 6/21 circle occurring in the same field. At the end of the articles page is a broken English article pointing out a connection with a mysterious spinning statuette in the Manchester Museum, only a stone’s throw from the Alan Turing Building Red Collie mentions in his comments. The Alan Turing (connect to “turning”?) tour (“turn”?) Collie also mentions took place on June 18, 2013. The second statuette turning related post from Manchester Museum personnel comes from 6/20, where the time lapse video is introduced.
The Manchester Museum houses over 16,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, making one of the largest collections in Britain and one with world-class holdings in a number of areas.
When I first noticed that one of our Middle Kingdom statuettes (Acc. no. 9325) had been turned around 180 degrees to face the back of its case in our new Ancient Worlds galleries, I wondered who had changed the object’s position this without telling me. The Egyptians themselves would have appreciated the concern to make visible for passers-by the text on its back pillar – a prayer for offerings for the deceased.
What is very strange is that the statue has spun in a perfect circle – it hasn’t wobbled off in any particular direction.
Main Entry: coffer [kaw-fer, kof-er] Show IPA
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large box
Synonyms: case, casket, chest, exchequer, repository, strongbox, treasure chest, treasury, war chest
reply to Ada
Submitted by Red Collie on Fri, 01/09/2009 – 00:28.
Dear Ada,
Freddy Silva’s estimate for paranormal authenticity in 2008 as “only 2 out of 133” has not been taken seriously by any of the hundred or so active researchers in the field.
Most of us believe on the basis of direct forensic evidence (or other) that 80-90% of the new complex pictures in England (or Germany/Italy) last summer were authentic.
Sunklands 
