Wyalusing Dreamtime

Civilian Conservation Corp access staircase to another world, built in 1930’s about the same time Tolkien was writing the Hobbit- was it something in the water?

Exhausted by civilization I spent yesterday alone in the woods, best remedy in the world and one that needs to be taken by everyone- by me in larger doses, more frequently and longer. Wyalusing State Park is one of Wisconsin’s treasures along the Mississippi River. So much of the normal sacred wilderness shares with us has gone missing from our day to day worlds, and we suffer that absence unknowingly, individually and as a culture. Without deep roots, growth ceases.  These photos contain some of the old medicine I discovered yesterday.

Headwater above the cave. Don’t let the tiny stream fool you- a torrent’s just one heavy rainfall away

Picture Rock Cave, water carved in St Peter sandstone, @ 400 million years old, deposited below the waves of the Ordovician Sea.

Woodland Effigy Mound peoples took refuge here; their petroglyphs and rock paintings were destroyed by subsequent visitors. http://www.nps.gov/efmo/historyculture/effigy-moundbuilders.htm

Beauty at every turn in these woods

Hanging Gardens of leaf, moss and shadow adorn the upper walls of this sandstone cavern

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