mystery of the stone pyramids

stone pyramids # 3556

On January 12, 2013, I was at Webster (Where Life is Worth Living) Park on the shore of Lake Ontario shooting some interesting ice patterns in the water.  I was there about 2 hours and as I was leaving I saw a gentleman building these stone pyramids about 30-40 yards from the shore.  He had on heavy waders and the water was probably 3-4 feet deep.  The water is near freezing at this time of year so this could not have been an easy task.  This shot is looking North just before sunset.  The man left before I had a chance to ask about them but my theory is that they may be a tribute to the two first responders that were killed on Christmas Eve last year not far from this site.  That tragedy made national news.

I went back to this location the next day with my 70-300 mm lens and got some tighter shots of each of the pyramids.  One thing I noticed was that one of the pyramids has what appears to be a note on one of the rocks just above the water line.  It can be clearly seen in one of the photos below.  This part of the park is not well attended during the Winter except by folks who live in the area or fishermen so I’m not really sure how many people saw these.  Two days later they were gone, except for the very bottom layers, probably due to high winds and very rough waters.  I returned every day for a week after to see if the note washed ashore but I never found it.  Two week later this is all iced in for about 50-75 yards from shore so my guess is the note is committed to the deep.

stone pyramid # 3563

stone pyramid with note # 3574

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rainbow # 8422

Welcome to 2clicksaway, a blog dedicated to photography and other nonsense.  Anyone familiar with the old ONEOWNER blog will feel comfortable with this new format since most things are the same, except there is no history.  But history makes itself and I’m hoping to follow the same path as ONEOWNER.  There are some minor differences, though.  This blog is 99% fact free whereas ONEOWNER was 100% fact free.  The added 1% fact makes this more nutritious and keeps readers on their toes.  The facts won’t necessarily be obvious so if there is any confusion, please leave a comment and I’ll personally get back to you.  As a matter of fact, I intend to answer all comments since I don’t anticipate very many anyway.  But do comment, please.

Another thing you may notice is a bit cleaner look since I’m not using too many Widgets.  There is no “Blogroll”.  I had one on the old blog but I neglected it and it never seemed up to date.  I’m unsure of the value of it so if anyone has any opinion at all, please let me know and I will be glad to add one in the near future.

In conjunction with this blog is a second blog, LIGHTSCATTER, which is very special to me.  I won’t be doing any writing on this blog, only posting photos.  There are quite a few blogs that follow this format and I really like the idea of having the photos stand on their own.   I also welcome comments on LIGHTSCATTER as well and look forward to sharing information on any photos.  The posts will represent  my favorite photos, so some may or may not appear here.

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Oh, this guy might show up from time to time.  It’s in his contract.