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Commons Ford is a strange place with varied landscapes, cedar forests with trails gnarly as the branches...
we found him on his back waving his arms all around like a televangelist
waterfalls that zigzag over limestone canopies into wade pools
wide open fields of brush
more from lost pines...
and Enchanted Rock is "a huge, pink granite exfoliation dome, that rises
425 feet above ground, 1825 feet above sea level, and covers 640 acres."
all kinds of weird things grow in the crevices between the great stones
we took the Echo Canyon trail because it was so wet and foggy that climbing the summit was too dangerous
One of the largest batholiths (underground rock formation uncovered by erosion)
in the United States.
Tonkawa Indians believed ghost fires flickered at the top, and they heard weird
creaking and groaning, which geologists now say resulted from the rock's heating by day
and contracting in the cool night....
A conquistador captured by the Tonkawa described how he escaped by losing himself in the rock
area, giving rise to an Indian legend of a "pale man swallowed by a rock and reborn as one of
their own." The Indians believed he wove enchantments on the area, but he explained that the rock
wove the spells. "When I was swallowed by the rock, I joined the many spirits who enchant this
place." The first well-documented explorations of this area did not begin until 1723 when the
Spanish intensified their efforts to colonize Texas.
vacation conversations:
self-improvement, slowing down, reasons not to try, society's demise, media manipulation, cannibalism phobias w food, how as we grow up we slowly lose our senses of imagination, the story of Job, how the careless or cruel treatment of our exes is not an indication of our competence or worth, government drug testing on soldiers, WWII, Hiroshima, Harryrodeo, types of pickles, types of soul patches, strength, how i am strong in tribulation but weak of self-esteem, how one can be feeble in spirit but tenacious in intellect, familiar with theory though unqualified in practice, fragile of mind, able of heart.
clumsy, some of us unconscious professors. each of us has so much to teach the other.
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Damn, lady, those are almost prettier than they were in real time
Date: 2009-12-14 03:02 am (UTC)remember all those times we almost died?
Date: 2009-12-14 03:08 am (UTC)I stared at that one for 10 minutes before I figured it out
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Date: 2009-12-14 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 05:55 am (UTC)it's 3 places, lovely 1.
Commons Ford (all the fields of red, waterfalls and gnarly trees), Lost Pines (the taaaaall trees w sunlight through), and Enchanted Rock (the foggy place with the beeg boulders).
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:46 am (UTC)I like them this time as much as the other day.
What an amazing dream world.
That granite thing could be a giant wart. Or one of those ugly pale moles. Exfoliating itself up out of there. But it's beautiful.
There HAVE to be amazing caves near you. there HAVE to be.
That one upload has more spectacular images in it than I've seen in a year.
You should post some to livejournal community called landscapes. It's in my userinfo somewhere if you need a link. Bond with the Russians.
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Date: 2009-12-14 01:40 pm (UTC)and yes, YES there are LOTS of caves here, but many you have to pay alot to get into, the others have bats (which i don't mind) and jesus KNOWS what else (rattle snakes, scorpions).
i never think to post my images to other flickr communities. i know there are tons of them, i just haven't found one yet, and my camera is cheap. i'm afraid they'll all know i'm an amateur and kick me out!
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Date: 2009-12-14 08:34 am (UTC)ugh, sans coffee i type like a chimp
Date: 2009-12-14 01:44 pm (UTC)i have to admit it's scary for me to just let anyone know where places like these are. some spots i love have been choked out by overpopulation, trampling, litter. austin is growing at a disturbing rate.
yr friend can locate these places, easily if s/he's interested enough in finding them.
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Date: 2009-12-14 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 01:46 pm (UTC)he seemed too deep in thought to notice me.
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Date: 2009-12-14 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-14 01:07 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG17TsgV_qI
Plus, you know, it's beauty consuming death, so the theme too has its appeal.
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Date: 2009-12-14 01:49 pm (UTC)that is amazing!
thank you so much.
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Date: 2009-12-14 02:47 pm (UTC)hehehehe
Beeeeutiful pictures, as always!
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Date: 2009-12-14 02:54 pm (UTC)and i'm glad you like the fotos <3
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Date: 2009-12-14 03:27 pm (UTC)xox
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Date: 2009-12-14 05:48 pm (UTC)you need many days to thoroughly explore this place. it's huge and strange.
like a lava spill or i don't know. the rock is precambrian! there was almost NO life on earth back then.
most of the time i am behind the camera. there are only a couple shots of my freckle face. here is one of aaron and me. when we bang our heads together it makes lightning frm heaven!
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Date: 2009-12-14 05:49 pm (UTC)The pictures incite motion and narrative. Thanks for taking us along.
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:08 pm (UTC)i pick up pretty ones for my daughter on my walks, when she's not with me.
the enchanted rock photos totally look like they were in motion when they were taken. the landscape is surreal. i read that it's eroding very quickly. i wonder what it will look like this time next year.
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Date: 2009-12-14 10:57 pm (UTC)aaron said i probly poked him in the eye. :(((
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Date: 2009-12-17 06:53 am (UTC)mist! So neat!
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Date: 2009-12-18 03:21 am (UTC)as well, the rains have made all sorts of weird things grow in the corners and bases. lichens eeeeverywhere.
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Date: 2009-12-17 07:38 pm (UTC)Hey, I'll be in Austin from Christmas Day until the Tuesday after, I've convinced my kung fu cousin to go hiking with me in Lost Pines! Are you going to be in town, want to go for another walk one day? I'm jaybthompson at google's email service.
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Date: 2009-12-18 03:18 am (UTC)i'll email closer to time.
truly,
STOKED
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Date: 2010-01-02 11:26 pm (UTC)i thought you wun't talkin to me no more.
i have a rattle copy with YOU on the cover, all glowin like a candle.
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