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I went to my favorite park last weekend to visit my stone circle (something I built around 1993). I walked up to the usual spot and couldn't find it! At first I thought someone had stolen all the stones and that it was gone. A wave of loss settled over me as I tried several other spots, but eventually I returned to the original spot (where I knew it had to be). Upon looking closer, I realized it was still there - I just couldn't see it immediately. The stones were sunken into the ground so only the tops of them showed anymore, and the grasses covering it had grown to a height of several feet. But even more unexpected, one arc of the circle was taken over by bushes that had grown about 3 feet tall. It takes a while for bushes to grow 3 feet. I thought my last visit had been much more recent than it actually was.

I visited the stream and the glen and the pine grove. Lyra got her first pile of interesting rocks and bags of litter in the trunk (I took them out and brushed her off as soon as we got home...) I would have taken Smurf for that kind of work, but it still has no AC (yet) and it was hot out...