While inspecting a new crop picture at Sugar Hill on August 1, the noted crop-circle researcher Janet Ossebaard suggested to me that its "18 cubes" might represent a near-future date of August 18, as likewise suggested in an earlier crop picture from East Field by phase cycles of the Moon. I replied that those mysterious crop artists seldom use modern calendar schemes; and that one would have to figure out what all of those strange "cube" symbols were intended to represent, before being able to interpret the new picture with any confidence.

But after making a careful study, it seems she was correct! In ancient times, many different cultures on Earth would construct "cube sundials" in order to tell hourly time during different parts of one full day. Four or even five different vertical sundials would be inscribed onto different faces of a stone cube:

"It used to be traditional to place four sundials on the sides of a tower in order to tell time of day. Alternatively, a pillar could be erected to hold a a cube of stone, and four sundials could be inscribed thereon."  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial).

Three weeks earlier at Toot Balden, we saw their definition of a cube sundial as one that would keep daily time in units of 36 x 10 degrees by the sun's shadow, or equivalently 36 x 40 minutes:

Then on August 1 at Sugar Hill, they drew another picture that showed 18 cube sundials at its centre, surrounded by four rings of 36 smaller time-units on its outside:

Since the latter picture appeared close to midnight on July 31, its message would seem to be that "only 18 days remain until some significant event on August 18". But what could be happening on August 18, 2007 apart from a conjunction of Venus with the Sun?

Well, we only have to wait two weeks to find out! That date was first indicated in crops by a Mayan Sunstone at Wayland's Smithy in 2005. There a binary-hexadecimal number of 14-5-11 was used to specify August 16-19, 2007, once translated from the ancient Mayan 52-year calendar into our modern scheme. Then at Wayland's Smithy in July 2006, the longest of several "astronomical rays" showed a 7 x 8 grid at its end, in order to say 56 weeks or August 2007. Finally one month ago at East Field, four successive phase cycles of the Moon seemed to "end" on August 18.

Personally I would not worry! The most important thing to hope for would be a significant verifiable event, where those crop artists use their wormhole technology to predict something important in advance, and thereby convince a majority of Earth scientists that modern crop pictures are real.

Red Collie