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Wild Thyme

Thyme growing on Carboniferous fossiliferous Limestone at the site of Neolithic bowl barrows.

Thorswood Staffordshire UK 25th July 2017 SWT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kQ2uxkws8

Bert Jansch singing Wild Mountain Thyme.

The Byrds did a pretty good version too.

The Barrows at Thorswood are a powerful place to sit and reflect. Although some barrows have been completely destroyed by later quarrying a few are still intact. Sitting amongst the spring or summer flowers, you can feel yourself being dragged back through time. Can you imagine no motor traffic noise, no jet trails in the sky, no lights to blank out the stars. It must have been so quiet and dark.

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Uploaded on August 18, 2017
Taken on January 1, 2004