In the Dark

Heading North: one very large bear!!!

Making a Scrape

Acorns

A Section of The Indian Foot Path

Remnant of Old Indian Trail in Massachusetts

Turned Around On My Hike Today

I left a worn trail, and heading confidently off  through the woods, to the south west, where there was a gravel road that would take me back home.  But the road seemed to be getting further and further away, and the landscape more and more difficult to navigate, with piles of rocks dumped by the last glacier. No Cell Phone Service, but I decided to trust this whimsical cairn, which pointed me back in the "other" direction.  Sure enough, several hundred feet down a hill was a spring,  and just beyond,  the road.

Rock Cairn with directional stone.

Small Buck, Big Fat Bear

I think I've finally found a good location for my Trail Camera!!

Cairn Images

A closer look at a Cairn I posted earlier in the month. This cairn is composed of a series of boulders of differing materials, aligned side by side, with rocks  tucked into the spaces between each rock. Near the "top" of this image..three "heads," looking left, or has my imagination run away with me?

A view along the length of the cairn: a ragged quartz -infused rock closest to the camera, then several boulder piled in a row.  At the "top," three stones, all "looking" left.  

Close up of one of the stones placed at the "top."
Looking left. 

Native American Cairn Hunting

Rock Shelter

Spring with lintel stone

Row of rocks under effigy shaped slab

Rock Shelter in the middle of a glacial "dump." I haven't been able to find a safe way to get closer.
Best not to go there. The huge black bear might be looking for a Den. Or, perfect habitat for rattle snakes. 

Looking for the Eye

MJ and a Bird Effigy

The Eagle

A Flash of White! An adult eagle  trying to catch a fish right in front of our house!
This is not my photo, but it represents the scene, exactly.

Not in my Backyard

Serpent Wall Massachusetts

But abut 15 miles away, in my friends backyard.   This is a magnificent "stonewall."  Gosh, everywhere I look, I'm seeing Cairns....and effigies.

Another inigma

First view: There are ledge outcroppings all over the side hill, but  this arrangement of 4 large stones,  with small fist size  stones tucked in between, invites a closer look.  Is this a Cairn?

Moving around the pile...what looked  like a natural split becomes a split that has been adapted.
A beautiful Bird effigy! 

Close up of how the "effigy" stone is fitted together.
It must have taken two strong men to lift the top stone into place. This is in the middle of a glacial dump and I cannot begin to guess it's purpose, but it's definitely not happenstance. 

Porcupine Mom and Baby

There was a well worn animal trail in the woods so I attached a trail camera to a nearby tree.
Rather fun to watch. I also left in a clip of a porcupine "call."