Standing There
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One of my favorite locations close to home. To me, this one old tree appears to be protecting the suroundings.
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I had to sit down for this one and I was wishing that more gardeners would use raised bed gardens ... )0: This poppy was spotted on a recent neighbourhood walk.
Edited with an effect in Topaz Studio.
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This photo shows a part of the standing stones and doesn't cover the whole site.
The Calanais Standing Stones are an extraordinary cross-shaped setting of stones erected 5,000 years ago. They predate England’s famous Stonehenge monument, and were an important place for ritual activity for at least 2,000 years.
We don’t know why the standing stones at Calanais were erected, but our best guess is that it was a kind of astronomical observatory.
Patrick Ashmore, who excavated at Calanais in the early 1980s writes: ‘The most attractive explanation… is that every 18.6 years, the moon skims especially low over the southern hills. It seems to dance along them, like a great god visiting the earth. Knowledge and prediction of this heavenly event gave earthly authority to those who watched the skies.’
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Still standing with a lean - this old farmhouse deserves more respect but think it days will be delegated to housing raccoons, skunks or other vermin!
Happy Mono Monday!
“It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Usually, I try to correct the distortion what comes with shooting tall buildings with a wide angle lens. However, in this image, I left it as is, and liked it!
No was her name
No was the lion that no one could tame
But Faith was his name
Faith came around with a smile on his face anyway
He said, tell, tell me now
Tell me the worry that knit up your brow
She said slow down this train
Slow down the iron that runs in my veins
I can hear you tap tappin' at my kitchen door
I can hear the river run, and the river want more
Don’t you know, I’m already sure
I can hear you tap tappin at my kitchen door
But No kept her name
No got so quiet she put out her flame
But Faith stayed the same
Faith came around with that smile on his face the next day
He said, follow me down
Follow me down with your pick and your plow
I can hear you tap tappin' at my kitchen door
I can hear the river run and the river want more
Don’t you know, I am already sure
I can hear you standing quiet at my kitchen door.
Lyrics from Wolf Larsen - Kitchen Door
*pose made by me... :))
This is cormorant which could easily see them around in Adelaide~~so wonderful bird!
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Cream-coloured Courser (Cursorius cursorat)
Taken at Masirah Island, Oman.
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FACTS:
Distinctive wader of desert areas, uniform sandy-brown with a blue back of head framed by a white and black stripe meeting at the nape. Bill is slightly down-curved. Very tall and slim with long legs that it uses to run across desert and semi-desert areas with its head held high. Dramatically patterned in flight with black flight feathers and underwings contrasting with its sandy body.
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From the foreground to the background, everything seems to stand tall.
Converted to monochrome, as seen on a walk.
"Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished."
~Mary Oliver
This ancient celtic standing stone on Slaughter Hill, Co. Wicklow, dates back to the Bronze Age and it has stood here for thousands of years. Its wide side faces out over the Irish sea and the rising sun. It is of a type called "Schist" and the closest place to here, where this type of stone can be found is over 20 miles away near Kippure, which means it was actually physically carried to this spot.
No one knows what is its significance but it is most likely ritualistic because of its position and its relation to the sun.. All I do know is that I have visited it several times at dawn and when the first light strikes it, it certainly stirs up some strange and wonderful emotions which Im sure was the reason for it being positioned there in the first place. Magical!
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Pat.