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» posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 8:46 am by Dude

 

Arcadia, Natural Stone Arches and Baobabs

Sorry its been so long, really up to my eyes in stuff. Anyway:

  • New Outpost
  • New City
  • New Build
  • New Welcome Area
  • AND A R C A D I A

So. I made a vid, Just a taste..more to come but I think The Important Bit is Arcadia, so I’ll concentrate on that…..


Entrance area is lovely, super graphics and in the Blue Mars tradion, Elegantly Beautiful in a Tasteful Way. Love the spinning welcome with the two moons (casting One Shadow >>> Grid Rock!). Cool, Watch the video Got to go to http://Home.Luggala.org Back tonight……

.But Why Baobabs? Well apart from being the biggest species of tree in the world, have no time rings so they are ageless and me and Baobabs go way back. I was travelling through the Rift Valley (1972) when I saw them. Wow! I called ‘em potatoe trees cause they were short and stumpy. The White Hunter who I had hitched a lift with for the past two days (Ita Africa, big place) turned down the Strauss Waltz playing on his stereo. He said “No, Philip, they are upside down trees” OMG, after that every Baobab I looked at was upside down. God had made them as ordinary trees then he said lets have a laugh so he picked them up turned them upside down and stuck them back into the ground. They look upside down i.e. The Roots are where the branches should be. You look at their giant stubby bodies and they’ve got Giant Stubby Branches, like roots! AND, they often don’t have any leaves, they don’t seem to have much time for leaves. I did see one with a few leaves down on the plain and it was billed as the biggest in the world in Tsavo National Park where I saw Pink Elephants, but you could see it wasn’t really into leaves. two years later up in the himalayas with the Tibetans (hahahaha..Name Dropping..lol)My Parisian friend was reading Le Petit Prince we only had a french copy. She would read it in french and translate it into Parisian English. Baobabs > The Little Prince’s raison d’etre. I’ll get a copy..So Baobabs. When I was in USA 15 years later I came across Stone Arches. I saw the again in Avatar. I saw them again last night in Arcadia.

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