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Thanks to the alert reporting and cosmopolitan culinary interests of reader Stephanie M. we have been made aware of the Sconehenge Bakery and Cafe in Berkeley CA.

Good find.  Henges are everywhere.  It may be that there is a genetic instruction set for building them.

Last week in a teaser post I promised to build Millennium Bar Henge and here it is.

Energy Henge is (was) a thing of beauty looming on the workbench in the garage and giving of the sweet artificial smell of cherry cough syrup.  Its completion was held up by the need to recalibrate the bars to account for the daylight savings time adjustment.

If you like hengy things you should check out Clone Henge.  Where the extremely creative Nancy Wisser perseveres in her attempt to catalog all things henge-like.

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Nobody visits Maryhill Henge

and even less people go to Carhenge.

So few in fact that according to this story in a local (northwestern Nebraska) newspaper Carhenge is for sale.  Why not move Carhenge to Maryhill and build the critical mass of both.  I imagine a blend of Area 51 and Storm King Art Center.

In September I visited Rebecca in Oregon and we took a few great road trips which I have yet to post any pictures from.  But because I have been on a blog henge roll for the past few days I thought I’d post this updated picture from Maryhill Henge in Washington.  We drove out the beautiful Columbia River Valley past Hood River and crossed at this this bridge into Washington

and after a short search found the henge.   I had been before (previous post) and had been woefully under-impressed but this time I went down the hill in the front and got this really great picture.

I think that if I was in charge of Maryhill I’d move the parking lot down below the henge so that the approach was up the hill.  It also needs a gift shop and some more critical mass.  See tomorrow’s blog entry for an idea about building the critical mass.

We also drove around Mt Hood

I love stand alone mountains.

This is the third day in a row that I’ve posted a hengish thing.

This photo of a magnificent stone pile from Crissy Field in San Francisco was taken by Richard Drake.  It was sent to me by his brother and my friend Bill Drake of South Carolina.

It reminds me of the stone piles in Hawaii,  Maine

and Southern California that I have, for no apparent reason, memorialized before.

Here is a Henge that didn’t work.

The proportion is wrong and the lintel doesn’t look right.

I think it could be better with hot melt glue but it seems heretical to destroy books for whimsical art.   Even books that are entirely homeless with no prospect of ever being adopted, let alone read.

We will have to go back to the books on this one.

If you could own a couple of hundred seriously out of date energy bars what would you do?

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In the UCLA Clark Library the Head Librarian, Nina Schneider had opened some of the books that had maps and displayed them for the Map Society to take a look at.  One of the books was open to a picture that looked like a henge.

Mystery Henge

But not Stonehenge.  The book from the 17th century was, I think,  a gazetteer of English Counties in Latin.  The illustration is in the Oxfordshire chapter and Stonehenge is in Salisbury.

I promise to go back down to the Clark and get more details.  In the meantime as a result of a talk I gave about the US Mexico border I have discovered a new ancient henge find in a book at a library in Los Angeles.  Talk about serendipity.

Tube henge and the Awful Tower got a nice write up on Clonehenge.com.  Take a look and be sure to give it five stars.  I’m trying for henger of the year.

It was an an amazing event. Twenty people gathered to see the worlds first ever henge made out of toilet paper tubes.  Kimberly Clark’s announcement that the toilet paper tube was an endangered species inspired this tribute.

A poem about the end of the Tube written by Rachel B was read by Katie W.  Video to follow on YouTube when I can figure it out.

And because there were extra tubes we spontaneously built the awful tower.

Special thanks to Randy, Joe and Johnny for building this unique cultural icon.

Remarkable.

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