Mystery Pix

by wjw on April 29, 2012

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I was out of town this week in a location so remote that I had access neither to Internet nor phone.

Here’s a picture of one of the places I visited.

My question for you all is, What is this?

“It’s a piece of southwestern countryside” is a perfectly accurate answer, but it would be an incomplete one.

There’s something else in this photo. Can you guess what it is?

I’ll reveal the answer in a future post, but in the meantime you are all free to speculate.

Nathan April 29, 2012 at 1:55 pm: Face-shaped rocks?
TC April 29, 2012 at 2:01 pm: Jimmy Hoffa’s buried there?

Or is this a Trinity thing?
DorjePismo April 29, 2012 at 2:31 pm: Former Native American structure of some sort?
Ralf The Dog. April 29, 2012 at 7:10 pm: I think, there might have been a small cave.
Ralf The Dog. April 29, 2012 at 7:13 pm: Looks like a place I know just outside the Arbuckle mountains.
Not Todd April 29, 2012 at 9:49 pm: My first thought is that it’s a skeleton of some creature with an elongated head, whose skull we see at about nine o’clock. Horse, maybe?
Ralf The Dog. April 30, 2012 at 12:54 am: @ Not Todd, Are you talking about that think with the tree on it? Do you remember, the original Alien Movie? Do you remember, the skeleton of the giant in the spacecraft they found? Don’t worry, that’s all it is.
Jim April 30, 2012 at 2:38 am: Ruins of a structure where Geronimo once took refuge.
Bradley Civick April 30, 2012 at 4:12 am: Peyote.
Ralf The Dog. April 30, 2012 at 5:49 pm: It’s a hidden hobbit house!
David A. W. April 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm: I think it could be one of two things.

Either meteor crater.

or an ancient bush (can’t remember the name though – they grow outwards very slowly by runners. What starts as a bush – over centuries – becomes a ring of bush around bare ground. And they live for 10’s of thousands of years)
DensityDuck April 30, 2012 at 10:04 pm: It’s a demonstrative adjective.

Next question?
Ralf The Dog. May 1, 2012 at 12:51 am: Large quantities of firewood for a BBQ?
Dave Bishop May 1, 2012 at 6:05 pm: I’m assuming that the greyish shrubs which dominate the picture are some sort of Artemisia … possibly Sagebrush (don’t know enough about the flora of the American South West to be sure)?

But there’s something indistinct in the clearer area in the middle. The more I look at it, the more it looks like Jesus trying to pull himself out of a hole in the ground using one hand … I suspect that I am wrong about this!
Steve Moss May 2, 2012 at 3:21 am: Flattened vegetation forming an arrow shape?