Osceola,
Nevada
Light Shows and Such
Meteor
showers in the night’s sky were our motivation for the early rise, but it meant
taking a relatively long drive to reach our destination—the spot where I left
off after yesterday’s trek. We are now
on Pacific time, having reached the Nevada border yesterday.
By
4:08 a.m., we had reached our spot under a sparkled world of stationary stars
and meteors shooting about. It is that
special time of year when star/sky gazing is the best, and continentally
speaking, we are in the optimum place to view everything. Hayagriva, Marshall, Curtis and I did not put
out lawn chairs to begin the gaze. We
were committed to multi-tasking—walking, chanting and looking up, being awed by
the ‘flight of light’. Marshall lost track of his sightings. It was amazing—humbling.
As
the sun crept up behind us, dissipating a stubborn night, the local plant life
was revealed to us. There are shrubs by
the name of winterfat ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krascheninnikovia ), salt brush (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atriplex ), and
Indian rice grass (https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/achnatherum_hymenoides.shtml ). There’s something called
halogeton ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogeton ), which is poisonous to
livestock.
Curtis
was bold in taking one of the herbs.
“I
gave it to you to smell, not swallow.
Watch it, please!”
Historically,
there’s interesting factors about the area.
The Fremont culture https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/historyculture/fremont-indians.htm had established a village 700
years ago where archaeological findings reveal much of their past.
Osceola,
was a mining town that shut down in 1940. A ghost town. http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/osceola.html They extracted gold. I had to
ponder what is real gold. It’s sacred
sound. It’s the great environment we’re in, despite the desert. It’s each other.
May
the Source be with you!
20
miles
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