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Sun Light passing, alighting on and going through the recumbent stone based and standing lintled flanked aperture of Tomnaverie a Four Poster Stone Circled Monument near Aberdeen.
Twelve is far too many for most people, please don’t look at all. Some of the best are beyond the first few. There are seven images with the Nuclear Bunker in view to the left of the major focus of stones. I have mentioned the bunker below and in other pictures alongside these on Flickr. I had something to say about Knockargety Hill unfinished fort, but I forgotten what, but I still including a link to it.
Tomnaverie Stone Circle has also been known as Mill Of Wester Coull, The Tomnaverie, Tarland Burn.
Tomnaverie Stone Circle near Tarland in Aberdeenshire is quite fantastic. It nearly killed me to reach it up one short steep slope. It would be quite easy for many people to follow the well set path. The 'after life' at the top of the path was magnificent. I feel sure that I intended to take another picture to join with this one and I failed to do.
This prominent site with marvellous views is only part of the ancient remains here that extend to further circles and mounds that are probably burial cairns. The full extent of the remains is not at all easy to see in Summer growth. Beyond and below and unfortunately most likely through the site, which does show signs of use up to the 1600s, there is also a Nuclear Watch and Fall Out point. Both medieval landscaping and concrete bunker are within a Megalithic site. We humans love to follow on in the footsteps of our predecessors current roads run close and sometimes over ancient sites and we are still drawn to the ancient stone settings which are sited in the landscape when there was less built and more opportunity to see and be seen from site to site.
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“In 1926 when there were only four stones still standing Alexander Keiller succeeded in getting the quarrying stopped after what he wrote was the "hectic riot which I created in the quarry last summer" with the landowner Lord Aberdeen. Keillor also got the monument made a scheduled monument in 1927 and taken into official state guardianship in 1930.[26][27][28] State care meant little more than erecting a fence and keeping the grass cut.[12] With Aubrey Burl in 1995 writing "Tomnaverie, ... a once fine recumbent stone circle, is a wreck ... its stones are now a jumble", Tomnaverie was chosen as the site for a major archaeological excavation in 1999 and 2000 led by Richard Bradley. Not only was the site to be closely investigated but also, so far as possible, it would subsequently be restored to something more like its original condition with its stones re-erected in their original sockets.[29][30]”
Tomnaverie stone circle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomnaverie_stone_circle
Tomnaverie Stone Circle
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/tomnave...
Tomnaverie
Welfare, Adam (2011a). Halliday, Stratford (ed.). Great Crowns of Stone The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland Gazetteer and Appendices (PDF). RCAHMS. pp. 473–477. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 December 2019. – only published online.
www.historicenvironment.scot/media/4427/great-crowns-ston...
Knockargety Hill unfinished fort
Couldn't pass up a summer-like late October day in the high country!
This is while heading up Square Top Mountain looking back across Guanella Pass to the 14ers Mount Bierstadt and Mount Evans.
I colored this with my colored pencils today sending prayers of healing and love for Kelly's Lulu. The coloring page was found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tortugadeldesierto/2213426614/in/pool-coloringbooks
I colored Lulu with a golden glow as she is Kelly's sweet angel love.
As dew leaves the cobweb lightly
Threaded with stars,
Scattering jewels on the fence
And the pasture bars;
As dawn leaves the dry grass bright
And the tangled weeds
Bearing a rainbow gem
On each of their seeds;
So has your love, my lover,
Fresh as the dawn,
Made me a shining road
To travel on,
Set every common sight
Of tree or stone
Delicately alight
For me alone.
-- Sara Teasdale. Dew.
The fog is lifting on this gorgeous morning. Look how the tree looks as if it's on fire! Notice the grass seeds alight with backlighting.
Next to a pond on Robey-Bethel Grove Rd
Simpson Co., KY, USA.
The red kite is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.
Scientific name: Milvus milvus
Higher classification: Milvus
Did you know: The red kite has been described as 'the most beautiful bird of prey in Britain'.
This one always has such a nice soft landing on the feeder. She is the shyer of the several hummingbirds that visit.
I enjoy morning coffe on the porch and watching the birds do their morning routines.
I'm still working with this lens. I even found some dragon flies yesterday! So far so good. Enjoying it.
Sunset breaks through a snow squall revealing Yosemite's El Capitan on a cold February afternoon. Yosemite Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. The valley is about 7.5 miles (12 km) long and approximately 3000-3500 feet deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines. The valley is drained by the Merced River, and a multitude of streams and waterfalls flow into it, including Tenaya, Illilouette, Yosemite and Bridalveil Creeks. Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America, and is a big attraction especially in the spring when the water flow is at its peak. The valley is renowned for its natural environment, and is regarded as the centerpiece of Yosemite National Park, attracting visitors from around the world.
The lights of the city illuminating the underside of the passing clouds with an eerie, fiery glow, as the London Eye looks down on the River Thames, as seen from Westminster Bridge.
sunbeams alight on the budding trees and the winding potomac river after a wild thunderstorm on north fork mountain in west virginia. www.bobstoughphotography.com/
Aurora borealis (northern lights) over interior Alaska. Or, how nature compensates us for 9 months of the year being winter
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hau'oli makahiki hou!
on this first morning of the new year
a warm glow of blesses to You each one *
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this is truly how *everywhere-pink* it was .. straight from the camera
the two pictures here are from the evening before mom returned to arizona
while packing for her, i asked if she would like to walk to the beach before dark .. and even though the sky was socked-in grey and drizzling, she said "yes!"
sitting on lulu's steps, we saw sea turtles pop up their sweet heads several times :)
then, just as mom said she was ready to walk back, we noticed the tiniest touch of pink in the eastern sky .. opposite from where the sun would be setting behind what seemed a wall of grey clouds
within another moment, more of the sky was pink
then suddenly... this!
the whole sky!
(we knew it was another gift from our luluheart ... just like this heart which appeared at sunset the night before mom left exactly 2 years ago to the day :*)
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happy
happy
rosy
new
year!
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and love love love!
(am so looking forward to begin visiting You on your streams after being away :)
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So have not been on here much my fine flickr friends as my back got a bit worse again . Went to see Ms. Magic Physio this morning who could not believe I had 'regressed' . Turns out since getting better last week - I was walking around and sitting at my desk like a Sergeant Major for the last 5 days - with my back ramrod straight trying to make up for the fact that I had been lying low and on my back for the previous week . I believed that if I walked and sat with a ramrod back with shoulders arched right back that I would be making up for the previous weeks slouch where I lay around netflixing . After a bit of self psycho analysis - I reckon it is the nuns in the convent school that I went to back in Ireland that are actually the real culprits here ....as I can still hear their voices chiming in my ear 'Shoulders back and chin out Miss English '..;).
Yep, I probably(defintely) looked like a complete idiot with my nose stuck up in the air marching around the place over the last few days..haha. So she has undone the idiotic harm I had caused myself and given me my new 'marching orders' which are just to simply relax, breathe and hang loose.
This guy down at Bondi a few months ago on a summers evening is a great example of a nice loose chill and relaxing stride and taking things lightly :).
C-GMFG, a Cessna A185F Skywagon, setting down on runway 33 at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham, Ontario.
This aircraft was written off when it crashed while attempting to land on runway 15 at Buttonville on April 20, 2022. Fortunately, the only person aboard was not seriously injured.