Berg Publishing has announced the March 2008 release of a journal that will be of interest to many people involved with sacred sites. The title is Time and Mind. The managing editors will be Neil Mortimer and Paul Devereux, and Herman Bender will be a writer and on the editorial advisory board. Other names on the board may be familiar as well, depending on what kinds of reading you do.
I'm looking forward to this!
Also piles built up on boulder supports:
A beautiful spot and, as I said earlier, beautiful last weekend in the sun.
Here is a little retention system, not exactly a dam.
Above this last, on the hillside:
And a close up, angled slightly from above:
I would not have given these things that much credit, except that I found some other interesting things nearby.
Tim MacSweeney found this page of pictographs on page 78 of a book by Garrick Mallery. In the middle of the fifth row, just below the center, is a picture of a rock pile with the words "Many cashe [cache] heap".
Every rock in sight here is part of a rock pile. You might easily walk past without noticing. If a picture is worth a thousand words then I have already used up the thousand words. Anyway this is another rock pile site of the type I call "marker pile" (evenly spaced and in lines). I thought I would wander over to the northwest shoulder of a hill in a neighborhood where all the other major hills have piles on their northwestern sides. Sure enough this collection of tumbled downs was right where it was supposed to be. 
There were lines in several different directions and I could not locate any common point from which one could look down more than one line.
Early in the morning on a first fine May day. The sunlight shifts around in the mild breeze and you can see out from under the shadows of the hemlocks, where the rest of the rock piles are.
Above is a picture of the rocks below the ferny propped boulder I showed in the first group of photos from Ringing Rocks. You can see the propping rock up on the left. Of interest to me was the flat rock standing up in the internal point of the grouping.
I thought I had two of split-wedged boulders, but this is the one I was able to find this morning. It has this recent-looking wedged-shaped rock setting on top, too.
Perched boulder with another riding piggy-back. Or maybe rock love.
And your good old rock-on-rock. The group the rounded rock is set on has a vaguely human look about it, better seen if you click on this to make it bigger.
Tree growth affected by stones.
I was going through my Ringing Rocks pictures and found a few worth showing. Here we see, behind the famous boulder field, a huge rock pile. Could well be natural, but it seems wrong not to at least mention it here on the rock pile blog.
Next to the rock pile was a sort of bowl. If I'd come here in a group, this is where I would have chosen to sit for a picnic lunch. Or to drum and chant, depending on the group. Again, is it natural, artificial, or a bit of both?
Also behind the main boulder field is a section of rock that is black. I don't know if it is black rock or rock that has somehow turned black. Asked to guess, I would guess the second.
Then there's the stone landscape. Some of it is very interesting. I'll probably post a couple more pictures in a day or two--rock on rocks and a spilt-wedge. See below to get a sense of size for these boulders.
It is nice to get some color back in the photos, even if they are out of focus.
Just to finish describing what I saw here. This map fragment shows X's where I had thought it would be worth exploring for rock piles. I did not visit all these places but did find piles approximately at A and B. I wrote about A here and about B here.
And also two or more linear structures:
(the small upright brown rock on the right side of the pile)
(need to look at this a moment to see the vertical fin) or else incorporated a small piece of quartz or white feldspar:
(small white rock on the right is white feldspar)
(another piece of feldspar).
Look at this, in detail:
In another example, the white rock is on the right and the vertical brown rock is on the left:
In still other places the white rock appeared to be paired with another rock which was not necessarily reddish brown.
[I look at this and am sure there is something specific here.]
When a rock-on-rock made of quartz does appear, it is usually at the end of a line of piles or other rock-on-rocks without quartz, and is the last structure before a drop-off to a lower level. Vertical fins of rock, when in a pile, often are directed in a direction of the water flow (mentioned also at that first wet spot in FSF). What the meaning is of that, or what is the meaning of a red color I don't know. I have heard that the four sacred Indian colors (white, red, yellow, black) may have different meanings to different people. Now we have to ask: what could it mean for quartz to be combined with a vertical fin? The purported meanings of those things fit together easily enough conveying an idea of focused conduits of energy along the direction of the water flow. This is quite possibly nonsense but it is worth puzzling over.
