We had a visitor that first day. Just after the center was determined, a Praying Mantis showed up. I felt this was kind of appropriate since we spend most of the time making the labyrinth on our knees. It turns into a kind of penance as our knees get more and more sore. ! :-)

I wondered what this fascinating insect symbolized so I Googled "medicine cards praying mantis meaning". I came up with these:

Praying Mantis - Power of stillness, sleep and dreaming, prophet http://www.choronzon.com/efsd/animal.html#P I like this one. . . Power of Stillness.

Praying Mantis;--Power of stillness--Through learning to still the outer mind and go within, we can draw on greater power;--physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. From an unknown forum by Grey Wolf.

We were rained out on Tuesday. Maybe the Praying Mantis was telling us to get ready to sleep. I did a lot of that, resting up from our recent efforts in Salina.

Robert continues to refine our layout procedure. You can see how we've defined the orientation of each labrys along with the precise locations of the straight paths. We invested a lot of time here. Then it rained monday afternoon! We laid out the locations again monday evening, and it rained hard on tuesday. We came back on Wednesday and the slab was mostly dry, but we had to determine all the locations again.

We still had some markings left, but most of them floated off of the concrete. So we did it again. It took 3 iterations to get the paths measured since it rained hard twice after our first layout! And we're still on schedule! We're getting good at this!