Spring is a good time for playing with rocks at the park. Unlike during the summer, the rocks are cool and the weather is just right for creating art, or just looking at these stones, which are some of the oldest things in the park. Last Sunday, I noticed this mysterious rock sculpture at Mammoth Bar near the 90 cc. motorcycle track. I took a photo of it, because wind, weather, and animals will probably return these rocks to their original state on the river bank. I thought the small rocks between the large ones were cool.

Another name for piles of rocks like this one is a “cairn.” In Scotland, before warriors would go into battle, they would toss a stone onto the cairn. When the warriors returned from battle, they would take a stone off. The stones that remained showed how many warriors the tribe had lost. Today, cairns are used to mark things in nature, like trails, or good places for gold mining. I wonder what this one is marking?