Today, we toured the Etowah mounds, all six of them. That’s the largest and second largest in the distance.
Archaeology is ever-so-cool (duh)…I also enjoyed the vetch among the planted meadow flora. Bitter vetch is one of the earliest domesticated plants in the Levant. This, however, is probably common vetch…one of my favorites for the color and the delicate foliage with probing and twining tendrils.
The sacred zone aorund the mounds buts up against the Etowah River. That riffle on this side of the river is half of a weir that certainly has been built and modified in historical times, but may date back into prehistory and the era of the mounds.
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The image on the right gives you some idea of the cosmos as understood by the peoples living in this part of the continent when the Spanish arrived, and for many generations before. The yellow-green grassy layer with the central pine is the level people live on, with a dome above and water below, and distinctive edge-cliffs. Spirits are above and below and with the people. Note that the three red circle figures are slightly different for the people world and the realms above and below.
The image on the left is of a large shell with a supernatural creature carved on it that looks like a segmented snake. Snakes are more associated with the water world below. Archaeologists call them gorgets; the dictionary definition of that is a throat cover—armor or clothing—but I suspect these were worn or placed a bit lower, although this part of the past isn’t my specialty.
That’s all the context I will give you now, other than that my friend Adam used this artwork in his interesting and informative presentation this evening. I’m still processing it, and that’s a good thing.
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Pope’s dead; RIP. Let’s do spring cleaning. [Actually, the cleaning was planned late last week.] BTW, knee pads make floor cleaning much less painful.
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I don’t remember ever doing a night peony inspection. Turns out they fold their petals a bit, if this sample is representative.
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Just in time for tomorrow’s bunny visits, the peonies are open! [Neighbor-peonies, not in our garden, I admit.]
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I see an interesting muddiness in this night exposure…that doesn’t look like it’s nighttime.
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The title says it all. Although momentarily I wondered if this was a tulip poplar…but, nope, it’s a maple.
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Workers are reloading new shelving units in our upgraded local TJs, including the fridges. We saw one fella working from photos to get the cheese layout correct…or at least familiar to the shoppers (and stockers).
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Alignment…via draped wires and cables and whatnot.
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Fleur blanc is not beurre blanc.
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