Just as a stone makes a hole in water when it falls, it makes a hole in grass.
The rain and snow and heat it has collected make the grass close to it a couple weeks ahead and richer in nutrients than the main parts of the sod. This grass pushes up against it and away, as if the stone has landed on it, rather than being there first and calling it forth. It is a wave splashing out. The stone continues to push. Next year, it will push again. Eventually, the grass will cover it, just like the water of a lake closing over a thrown pebble, or even a raindrop. Stones slow time.
Categories: Earth, Gaia, Grasslands, Land, Nature Photography, Water
Okanagan Okanogan 
Not if it’s a Chilcotin Night Crawler, Harold. They come out in the night and slip onto the road where they lie in wait for the unwary mufflers and tie rods of unsuspecting vehicles. Pierre Berton told several great stories about them.
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Oh, yes, indeed. I’ve encountered those, too. They also bite mufflers.
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O no, it was Paul St. Pierre who told many a witty story about them.
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A stone talker, eh.
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