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It's sunflower season again! Our Greenway plants rows and rows of these flowers right near the roadway for everyone to see. Then on the other side of the driveway they plant rows and rows of cosmos and wildflowers too. ( Those are coming later =D )
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Akau Tangi - a wind sculpture by Phil Dadson. Installed in Cobham Dr, Kilbirnie, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.
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A bourne-stone up on Ilkley Moor points to two directions : Colne is way over in Lancashire past the Brontë mooland and Otley - which is not nearly as far- just down in the valley below Ilkley Moor at a natural bridging point with the river Warf in Warfdale.
As with Ilkley Moor and it's Mesolithic finds, Colne has a prehistory that traces back to the Mesolithic and up into history from the Neolithic and so on. There is also a Mesolithic site on the banks of the river Warf next to Otley. The Mesolithic is the age after the Ice age when the British Isles were reclaimed by man after ice cap melt. When found, Mesolithic sites are often ephemeral with a shell midden being a megasite. Pretty rare for mainland UK. With its poetical allusions to deep prehistory, this bourne-stone seems to sit quite outside of majority historical thinking and points directions with hands carved out of stone - a really nice attention.
Today's urban obsessions would not signal just such destinations with intermediate towns from the 18th century and beyond such as Silsden and Cross Hills vying with larger towns like Keighley and Ilkley for direction.
From the crossroads, the Otley road fades past a farm with a field for camping. Yorkshire farms are a wonder to look at - often with mixed herds and fine stone walls carpeted with grass straight from a painters tube. The camping field has a stunning view over bleeting sheep and onto more rolls of moor. Pretty much the only campsite for prehistory heads. The field sits just under Ilkley Moor and its famed 'rock art' petroglyphs. When you go to pay for your stay, rats scurry, the dead sheep perfects its riga mortis and junk piles between glistning slurry. There is nowhere to pay so you just have to figet in between. After a while - as if from a 1970s film, a head pushes through a tiny top window of the demolition farm. I can only think that the whole affair is a make-over for diverse Far Right tourists who are over to visit a faded petroglyph known as 'The Swastika Stone' : tourists in need of confirmation of their prejudices about British degeneracy. Seeing that we had a French number plate, the campsite administrator asked us if we were '...on the run' (!) Very strange.
AJ
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May 2014
Nuernberg, Germany
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