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We came across a young man balancing rocks in the Riverway yesterday.
He declined when I asked if I could take his picture.
So if you find balanced rocks--it's not just me!

Date: 2008-10-12 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wirrrn.livejournal.com

If I saw something like that, I'd look around for the biggest mother of a Caddisfly larvae I'd ever seen *g*

Date: 2008-10-12 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com
Well that's cool...:)

Date: 2008-10-13 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mperrotti76.livejournal.com
I have seen quite a few along the beahces in Winthrop this summer, as well.

Piles of rocks

Date: 2008-10-13 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Been going on for aeons, just not quiet as "balancy" as these.

They are called "cairns" in the rest of the world.

Quite, not Quiet

Date: 2008-10-13 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
OOps. My bad.

I would hope they are quite quiet all the time.

Re: Piles of rocks

Date: 2008-10-13 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com
Well, they're called cairns in the northern British Isles, inukshuk in northern Canada, ahus in Hawaii, Ishidoro in Japan, and so on and so forth. :)

http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/tradition.html

It's a long tradition, but there aren't as many people doing it as there once were (though probably more in the past couple decades, thanks to people like Bill Dan and Lila Higgins).

Re: Quite, not Quiet

Date: 2008-10-14 12:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com
When they fall down they go clunk.

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