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The letters and crucifix are made up of bike chains. Well, more likely motorcycle chains, but still cool.
The letters and crucifix are made up of bike chains. Well, more likely motorcycle chains, but still cool.
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@Lascauxcaveman, cairns have become fashionable here in New York, too, both in the city and in the country.
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Yes, when I was a kid in New England, folks built cairns, at homes by the shore, with the idea being to choose specific rocks, not for height, but for aesthetics, often thought of as "Zen" bitd.. In the mts used to mark trails above the treeline.
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They're fine in peoples gardens, but I don't like them out in the world at large. In natural/wilderness areas I will go out of my way to kick them over. I see them as a low-level form of vandalism--an "I-was-here" declaration similar in spirit to carving one's initials or spraying paint. I guess I'm a sorehead in that respect. I also kick over redundant cairns on mountain trails.
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They're fine in peoples gardens, but I don't like them out in the world at large. In natural/wilderness areas I will go out of my way to kick them over. I see them as a low-level form of vandalism--an "I-was-here" declaration similar in spirit to carving one's initials or spraying paint. I guess I'm a sorehead in that respect. I also kick over redundant cairns on mountain trails.
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A selfie with cairns might be the ultimate offense.
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I realize that people who build purely ornamental rock structures in streambeds and such probably mean well, but I wish they would stop. And don't even get me started on those little "fairy houses."
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A bunch of Italian beauties outside Alice's Restaurant a couple weeks ago.
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Nice cars. I see all kinds of 4 wheeled wonders on the roads of SoCal.
Ferrari 250 GT TdF along PCH.
'63 Split window near Ventura Harbor.
Renault R5 Turbo, Beverly Hills .
Fire truck pizza oven, Simi Valley.
No wheels, but I think these are offshore drilling rig escape capsules near Ventura.
Roadwork along PCH. Yes it really was that close. The crane was working moving rocks to build up the seawall.
Ferrari 250 GT TdF along PCH.
'63 Split window near Ventura Harbor.
Renault R5 Turbo, Beverly Hills .
Fire truck pizza oven, Simi Valley.
No wheels, but I think these are offshore drilling rig escape capsules near Ventura.
Roadwork along PCH. Yes it really was that close. The crane was working moving rocks to build up the seawall.
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stupid cairns
I also kick those cairns over, and enjoy it. You should try doing it while there are strangers around. They act like you're kicking babies.
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Driftwood sculptures in the artist's yard.
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(*And these fragile, little one-on-top-of-one rock towers aren't really cairns at all. Traditionally cairns are built as pyramids, with a large base layer of many rocks, a second, slightly smaller layer of rocks on top of the that and so on, until you peak out. Whether to mark a trail or mark a grave in the desert, they are designed to be solid and more or less permanent. Those tiny little Jenga towers of delicate triangulation and gravity stacked one on one are altogether different, as I see it. It really surprises me they inspire such animosity. The artist in me finds them amusing; the engineer in me finds them quite clever and fascinating, in the same manner as a house of cards.)
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Couldn't find the dogsled just now but this is my today ride. Came up from behind a couple of loose Greyhounds on the path? Nope. Got within 40 ft of them before mom leapt out into the d-y-k-e-lands. Junior was a lot more interested in me. about 20 feet away After a 3 minute Mexican standoff, I got on the bike and followed him. Beautiful animals.
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Usually when I knock over cairns it's to get a photo, or at a tent site. Cairns are quite often in scenic locations and spoil the view, in my opinion.
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On one's own property, cairns are like garden gnomes: kitschy but harmless fun for the grandkids. On trails and natural areas they are in the category of graffiti, litter, and old campfires. I trust that fellow cairn knockers-over will also pick up a few pieces of litter and scatter ashes they encounter, too.
Otherwise you end up with this, vandalism on a grand scale:
Icefields Skywalk, Jasper National Park. (Scott Rowed)
Grand Canyon Skywalk. (No photo credit at Desertusa.com)
(Both photos from Google Images)
Otherwise you end up with this, vandalism on a grand scale:
Icefields Skywalk, Jasper National Park. (Scott Rowed)
Grand Canyon Skywalk. (No photo credit at Desertusa.com)
(Both photos from Google Images)
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Summer 2015 after one of my normal routes near Lewisville Lake just north of DFW was finally reopened after severe flooding.
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Couldn't find the dogsled just now but this is my today ride. Came up from behind a couple of loose Greyhounds on the path? Nope. Got within 40 ft of them before mom leapt out into the d-y-k-e-lands. Junior was a lot more interested in me. about 20 feet away After a 3 minute Mexican standoff, I got on the bike and followed him. Beautiful animals.
https://vimeo.com/user46977853/revie...732/92edf014bd
https://vimeo.com/user46977853/revie...732/92edf014bd
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