Thursday I was driving along and came to the intersection of Piccard and W. Gude Rd. While waiting at the light I noticed a monument, consisted of two upright rough stone pillars with something that looked like a log painted green connecting them at the top. Very Stonehenge-esque.

I don’t know what this thing was for or commemorating, but I got to wondering what value archaeologists 2,000 or 10,000 years from now would ascribe to it. Would it be considered a shrine to one of our important road spirits? Perhaps a monument to a battle fought there, or an assassination that happened there?

Difficult to say, which brings up questions about our ability to judge the value and meaning of any particularly shaped piece of rock in Egypt, or the Southwestern United States, or Guatemala..