Val (Outlast 2) cosplay! I’M NOT VERY ACTIVE HERE, I JUST POST SOME PICTURES TO PROMOTE THEM. I’M MORE ACTIVE ON DEVIANTART, INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE!

Cathedral Cave, Langdale Quarries, Lake District

i know i've posted abt this before also but i did not have screenshots to demonstrate just HOW gently passive aggressive ingo is to volo when they talk. i have no idea if they intended it this way but he sounds so "sadly my strict standard of conduct will not let me tell you to fuck off for asking weirdly personal questions just so you can share your theories but with the subtext toolkit available to me i am VERY much shooing you out of the way so i can get back to what i was actually trying to do."

Gemstone, rock, and fossil artisan keycaps from Keycap Quarry.

Hello! Here’s a completly random landscape i was making this week-end. It’s loosely inspired by some rock cropings i live close to! I learned a lot from painting the clouds and grass and i want to make more background in the future! The colors are a bit wonky still but i think this looks decent value-wise.

texting ryan will always be dylan's favorite passtime <3

especially since they live a few hours away from one another. (post game ??)

'Open Space Office'

Courtesy: Tito Mouraz

Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont. EDWARD BURTYNSKY (B. 1955)

Calcite on Matrix from Grabiszyce Quarry in Poland

Clint Eastwood goes for a light jog around the Hutchinson Rock Quarry, Larkspur, California circa 1971.

Val (Outlast 2) cosplay! I’M NOT VERY ACTIVE HERE, I JUST POST SOME PICTURES TO PROMOTE THEM. I’M MORE ACTIVE ON DEVIANTART, INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE!

You know you’re really obsessed with a piece of media when you can pick it out in all of the media it’s influenced

saw people on twitter talking about new doctor who having disney+ money being spent on more extravagant sets, and were like "what, are you TOO GOOD for the quarry? we love the quarry. bring back the quarry, cowards"

Lapis Type 9

Curated set of polished lapis gemstone keycaps, under natural and UV lighting, by Keycap Quarry.

I’m trying to get back into the habit of evening walks/hikes, and after much deliberation this afternoon, I decided it was time to visit Quarry Island, which is off trail from Big Rivers Regional Trail. I was told it was a good place to find rocks — I’m on the hunt for some nice, round basalt. I found no rocks, since the waters were so high, but the island was gorgeous. You can see it from the overlook (first picture). I had to cross a railroad and wasn’t sure I was allowed out that way, but there was no one to stop me and I’m trying to build confidence anyway. The trail was on the map, so… off I went.

This area is known as Bdote to Dakota people, which is where the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers meet and lakes have sprung up. It is where many of the Dakota peoples originated, according to their stories. There are many beautiful plaques featuring Dakota (hi)stories and artwork. It was wonderful to read them and hear decolonizing insights about the advancements of the Dakota peoples and their stewardship of the lands before settlers arrived.

[ID: In the past, the Dakota people had no medical facilities or universities. Yet they survived and contributed to the world’s advancement through their own resources and systems of laws, customs, educational systems, and storytelling. The messaging features share Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) stories, creation stories commom to all Dakota people, and Hitunkakan Stories, traditional teaching stories that are specific to this landscape, so visitors may learn about Dakota worldviews and experience a gift of cultural knowledge. This project engaged Dakota elders, who are known first language Dakota speakers, and Dakota community members. Stories and lessons were selected with the intention to be appropriate for sharing with a larger audience. However, Dakota people have many versions of these stories, and they are all correct. Hecetu: this is so. This is Dakota Land. End ID]

The first and last couple sentences of this plaque really struck me, not out of surprise, but because it is rhetoric that would immediately shake up common white misconceptions about Indigenous lives and histories. Even as minor and obvious as these insights are, I do think shaking white settlers from complacency with such directness is invaluable. This blog is fervently supportive of Indigenous Land Back efforts, and I remain grateful for the educational work of Dakota peoples in spaces such as these.

As I strode off into the marshlands, redwing blackbirds and bank swallows were flying all around (see video! — ignore the tornado sirens, it’s Weather Awareness Day). Ducks nested in the reeds. Quarry Island itself is covered in mature swamp oaks, with evidence of a healthy mast year in the scattered acorn caps. The rocks made a perfect trail to the highest point in the island, where a large, almost altar-like rock sat (photos 2-4). The top was eroded from rainwater, and I left a snail shell I’d found further down in its hollow, wondering if the snail had made it that high in life. I offered clean drinking water, too. The rain I’d prepared to meet (I brought an umbrella!) was making its way across the lake at me, but I had some time before it arrived.

On the other side of the island was evidence others had been through. There were many buckthorn stumps and piles of branches. Some past visitor had neglected the first rule of rock flipping: put the rock back where you found it. So, I did my best to replace them. I found evidence of fires, too, and they were fairly fresh, based on the smell. At least they were on the rocks and not in the wooded areas.

By the time I made it back to the center of the island that the path bisected, the rain was coming in and the sun was beginning to set, signaling my time to return. I reached the overlook again just in time for sunset and took the first image. The rain was blowing upwards at me from below the bluff, hence the specs in the image. As I turned back towards my car, I saw this rainbow!

This was probably among my top five (if not top three) favorite hikes I’ve taken since I moved to MN. I will have to return to hike the rest of the trails north and south. I suggested the nearby firepits as a ritual site for my grove, too, so maybe we will all hike out to Quarry Island in the future.