April 23, 2007

Fun in the Great Outdoors

clearance 'cairn' nachusa, illinois

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"It has been reported that the 'ones that came before' created cairns resembling the scat of animals they most treasured as sources of food and materials.The rocks here are said to be arranged like the droppings of the Giant North American Land-Sloth, hunted to extinction shortly after the last ice age."

[photo & caption Stubbornson]

Posted by Stubbornson at April 23, 2007 04:21 PM