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Despite the cold water the kids played in the waves, body surfing them back to the shore. Here is Mason in one of the many waves.
Children join the monsters of the Hardcore Dentistry lawn band at a home haunt in the Hyde Park district of Austin, Texas, Halloween 2006. On Halloween night, the residents block off a roughly 12 square block area and turn it into a pedestrianised trick-or-treat trail for local children.
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles which is located around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, south west England. Unique amongst megalithic monuments, Avebury contains the largest stone circle in Europe, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain. It is currently used as both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary Pagans.
Constructed around 2600 BCE,[1] during the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age', the monument comprises a large henge, surrounded by a bank and a ditch. Inside this henge is a large outer stone circle, with two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is not known, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremonial usage. The Avebury monument was a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman occupation. During the Early Mediaeval, a village first began to be built around the monument, which eventually extended into it. In the Late Mediaeval and Early Modern periods, locals destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley however took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project of reconstructing much of the monument.
Avebury is owned and run by the National Trust, a charitable organisation who keep it open to the public.[2] It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument,[3] as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.[4]
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury
This is an original work submitted to the Chapman Bailey 2010 Belle Arti Art Award, showing in Brisbane in Nov/Dec 2010.
Acrylics, collage, spray paint, Pitt pens on linen. 14 x 14 inches.
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Took myself off to Dungeness RSPB reserve today the weather was fine but really windy. Not much was happening on the water so stuck to walking around on the paths amongst the undergrowth. Lots of insects flying and small birds in the bushes had my lunch in one of the hides and a couple of Terns were hunting over the water infront.
Bonded warehouse, Bunnahabhain distillery, Islay, Scotland, UK. B&W conversion done with Adobe Lightroom beta 4.