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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see” - Henry David Thoreau.
How do we see our worlds? Is the winter's day pretty or bleak? Soft or harsh?
Unedited with same, edited, photo of Haden Park, Vancouver, overlooking English Bay and the North Shore.
(Also on my blog: www.deborahjones.ca/2020/01/17/worldview-pretty-or-bleak/
Prise de vue du vignoble alsacien du coté de Hunawihr haut-rhin, avant la période des vendanges, en fond la forêt noire allemagne
The original round building was erected on this spot over 600 years ago; over time the far building – the square-cornered centerpiece of the Town Creek site – finally acquired its elevated status on top of the mound, itself is around 1,000 years old, surviving remarkably intact despite years of farming in the area
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Mount Gilead, NC – 2019NOV10 – The Town Creek Site:
For our 23rd wedding anniversary, after church Joe & I paused for a picnic lunch on our way to Town Creek Site, set high on a low bluff of an oxbow on the west bank of the Little River near its confluence with Town Fork Creek in Mt. Gilead, NC, on the sunny southern side of the ancient Uwharrie Mountain Range located in the southeastern Piedmont region.
The protohistoric Native American ceremonial center – listed in the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark – is the first North Carolina State Historic Site, and it also remains the only state historic site in North Carolina dedicated to American Indian heritage, drawing astronomers, and visitors like us, from far and wide to this fascinating time capsule.
The Native American People legacy carries muffled mystery buried in its background of protohistory, a period that spans prehistory and history, when a culture or civilization had no developed writing but when other cultures notated its existence.
Excavating the earthen mound built of clay – one mound built atop former mounds – has been a focus of archaeological research under one director for more than half a century, an unusual phenomenon in the history of North American archaeology.
People lived here for 12,000 years, but why particularly here? The Town Creek site manager Rich Thompson shared with Joe and me how major rains will turn the ceremonial center into an island surrounded by floodwater then as well as recently, flooding from the parking lot halfway up to the front door of the Visitor Center.
Why the name Indian: fueled by bravery and ignorance financed by greed and arrogance, Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, heading "to India" but reaching the New World, and the Town Creek people vanished with no clue; we have no written record of explanation. Today we see these lovingly-reconstructed structures and can look and learn in amazement and wonder. So we invite you to view the best of our photos we set into 6 mini-themed albums:
• Mount Gilead, NC – 2019NOV10 – The Town Creek Site:
◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Stockade & North Entrance
◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Family Hut on its Burial Site
◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Mound & its Major Hut
◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Minor Ceremonial Hut
◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Ceremonial Center Plaza
◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Little River Bluff Overlook
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The sahdows along the walkway provided an interesting perspective. The conduit housing for the light itself was a plus. Kenosha Wisconsin Harbor.
Taking a moment today to recognize how truly fortunate we are ... even when we think we're "not". There is always someone out there who has it much worse.
It's a storm of swords as three allied nations of Illarium, Navellos, and Plaxiom, battle it out with four other nations who are invading their realm.
Apart of the 2012 MocOlympics.
..light and shadow..
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