{"id":243,"date":"2005-04-21T19:09:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2007-11-23T21:31:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T05:31:52","slug":"ramble-at-castle-rock-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/ramble-at-castle-rock-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramble at Castle Rock Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cone shell of the day: Conus Auratinus, photo by Scott Johnson. This shell is greased and ready to kick ass, as Sha-Na-Na used to say.<\/p>\n

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I was gonna write an attack-of-the-cone-shell scene today, but went rambling in Castle Rock park instead.<\/p>\n

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There’s these giant smooth rocks piled up here and there. Moss in the trees from all the fog.<\/p>\n

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My hair is getting so long I was wearing a pony-tail today, to the disgust of my family members. Haircut soon.<\/p>\n

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Some kids tore the moss off one of the rocks to write a certain number ( I won’t state the number here, as it seems to attract bots), which means, like, “hooray for a certain herb!”<\/p>\n

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All the madrone and manzanita trees were blooming. Buzzing bees. This was a good place to sit. I have this tendency to do something and then think “Now what,” and move on too quickly. Once you're somewhere as good as this it doesn't get better. Your on a local optimization peak. I sat there awhile.<\/p>\n

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Madrone trees have great smooth fleshy bark. Note the crotch bulge.<\/p>\n

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I saw a spot on some bark that looked like a dog. Bark dog.<\/p>\n

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Then I got lost. A rock like an Easter Island tiki. Apparantly this special weird gnary hollowed out rock that you get in Castle Rock Park is called “tofini.”<\/p>\n

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Ended up down in the San Lorenzo River Valley. Water carrying our gnarly paracomputation, yes. Note the living checkerboard.<\/p>\n

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I worked my way up the stream to reach the base of the big Castle Rock Fall that I knew was there. Some green plants said, “Hello.”<\/p>\n

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A rock poised beneath a log on a ledge in a waterfall. A living koan. I may never make it to this spot again. All this perfection out there.<\/p>\n

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I reached the heart of the big fall. A rainbow in the spray.<\/p>\n


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