shadows rock at the park

Earlier today I had a wonderful lunch with Judith Weiss (of the great Keshertalk blog) at my favorite Japanese restaurant, following which we went to the Albany Waterfront Trail Park.

We found a beautiful little dream house that some artists built, and I handed my camera to Judith while I went inside and peered out the window.

Then Judith climbed up and admired the dramatic view of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge from the roof.

I was also interested in what our lengthening shadows were doing, and in this picture, it appears that they are being leered at by Marty Feldman, who’s face is painted on a rock!

(That’s my shadow on the left, and Judith’s on the right.)
The more I looked at my shadow, the more it appeared that it was doing things beyond my control, and interacting with some of the images painted on the rocks.
I saw a particularly forlorn-looking face on a rock which looked for the world to be afraid of my shadow, so I thought I should reassure it by petting it on the head.

Until today I didn’t know rocks had emotions, but they do!
And I think rock emotions may be contagious, because Judith got into the spirit of things, and I caught her engaged in hugging a rock!

(Cynics might argue that the rock had a heart of stone, but we know better!)