Parker Homestead Features a Sod Roof, Covered With Prairie Grass.

….[“According to the Theory of Relativity, Riemann geometry best describes the world we live in.
.... At Three Forks the road …. cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. East of Butte we go up a long hard grade, cross the Continental Divide, then go down into a valley. “]

Seven miles Southwest of Three Forks, MT. Although this interesting place is unmentioned by the ZMM Narrator, it nevertheless is worth a stopover. In a very picturesque setting, the Parker Homestead is a park for public visit and a resting place.
….I again traveled the ZMM Route in September of 2006 and decided to take this photo and place here for your interest.
….It is striking how different the color change is due to later in the season. This photo is part of an 8 shot 360 degree panorama, which will be eventually placed up in my ZMMQ Panorama Album.

..A) As The Previous Photo (Re Three forks, MT), Discussed At Length => .where you will often notice in ZMM => The Name Of The Town is used to Metaphorically / Poetically to support the current Chautauqua Lecture. As we eventually learn => This is Mr. Pirsig's stock-in-trade in both ZMM and Lila.
….In addition, Author Robert Pirsig has added into the ZMM Travel Narrative, what in ZMM Gallery Photos is called, => ”Metaphoric Bridge-Connections." At first, I was slow to catch on to these! It took me about 4 readings of ZMM before I finally said,=> "Hey, what is Pirsig doing here?" I started to watch for these "Connections" and was amazed to note that => At every abrupt switch between Chautauqua, and the Travel Narrative Description, this Connection" was ALWAYS there! This eventually led me to newly define the idea of "Metaphoric-Bridge-Connections".
….Many of the more outstanding examples of Mr Pirsig’s ”Metaphoric Bridge-Connections.", are discussed in many ZMMQ Gallery Photos. In such photos, along with my photo explanations, I point out these “Poetic / Metaphoric Bridge Connections” such as the following examples, that involve the use of a Town's NAME, as you see next =>
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EXAMPLES OF THE ZMM NARRATOR’S METAPHORIC USE OF TOWN NAMES =>
..A) Marmarth, ND, Hot, Tortured, Dry, Damaged, Muddy, Marred Notice how the town’s atmosphere and evident town abandonment, fit the Narrator’s description of the surrounding harsh terrain and the “death-birth continuity” of ZMM passage. Even the town name Marmarth, like that of Herreid, poetically suggests an awful place.
..B) "Baker, ND, Everything Is So Baking Hot! “At Baker,, where we stop, the thermometers are reading 108 degrees in the shade. When I take my gloves off, the metal of the gas tank is so hot I can’t touch it. The engine is making ominous knick-knicking sounds from overheating. Very bad. The rear tire has worn badly too, and I feel with my hand that it’s almost as hot as the gas tank. “
..C) Herreid, SD, Everything Is Horrid.
A Dangerous High Speed Truck Route Passes Through A Town Name Herreid, SD. Which (As Seen ZMM Passage), ZMM Author Pirsig Poetically Applies As “So Very Horrible” Herreid!

..D) Lemmon, ND, Everything Is Sour.
….By the time we reach Lemmon, we are really aching tired. At a bar we hear about a campground to the south. John wants to camp in a park in the middle of Lemmon, a comment that sounds strange and angers Chris greatly.“
..E) Prineville Junction, OR, Everything Is Prinnie, Pruny, Prickly Bad .
…. We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left.
... am so tired I go around in back and sit on the yellow-painted cement curb with my feet in the gravel and the last rays of the sun flaring through the trees into my eyes. Chris comes and sits down too, and we don’t say anything, but this is the worst depression yet. All that talk about gumption traps and I fall right into one myself. ….Fatigue maybe. We’ve got to get some sleep.
….I watch the cars go by for a while on the highway. Something lonely about them. Not lonely—worse. Nothing. Like the attendant’s expression when he filled the tank. Nothing. A nothing curb, by some nothing gravel, at a nothing intersection, going nowhere.”

.F) Also Good Metaphoric Candidates Are The Towns of => White Bird, ID, and New Meadows, ID.
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….SIDE NOTE:
….The above are good examples of how Author Pirsig, uses Town Names Poetically & Metaphorically, to reflect upon BOTH the Travel Narrative & Chautauqua Topics at hand. … And in my ZMMQ Gallery Photos, such as you are looking at right now, this usage is many times pointed out and discussed with the photo.
….However, most of my ZMMQ Gallery Photos were posted long before the NAME => ”Metaphoric Bridge-Connections" had been invented. And o/c is the reason you can’t use the MBC Words to Google for these examples.
… Additionally, you the reader (having read this discussion) now will have to supply the MBC idea, whenever there is => An abrupt switch between Chautauqua, and the Travel Narrative Description,.
....If you notice other examples, please send an Email, telling what you have found. ************** .

(Photo = September2006 0188 ...... ZMM Page = 235-236 ...... WayPt = 2006 516w 4176ft)