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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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Macro Monday
Theme: Stone
Size : Less than 3x3 inches
The subjects are tiny assorted coloured stones stacked and arranged on the overturned base of a stone mortar.
Natural light source through the windows at 9 o'clock. I added some water for the reflections and a black pepper corn for scale hence the title. I used a yellow plastic bag for the background.
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Stone In Focus
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II (1994)
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (2005)
Stone Me
G. Love and Special Sauce - The Hustle (2004)
Lenny
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (1983)
Big Kneed Gal
Taj Mahal - An Evening of Acoustic Music (1994)
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Nothing Quite Like Home
G. Love & Special Sauce - Sugar (2014)
Kick Drum
G. Love & Special Sauce - Philadelphonic (1999)
Little Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying (1991)
Compositor: Jimi Hendrix
"Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life."
Quote - Neil Gaiman
My absence lasted a little longer than expected. Back from vacation, unexpected work on the garden turned out to be possible again....stones from the driveway removed and replaced with gravel for the parking space and borders for new plants.
Hope that now finally a quiet time will come. Happy start of your week ;-))
Stone sculptural decorations at the entrance to the New Jerusalem Monastery. City of Istra. Moscow region. Russia.
Tomnaverie Stone Circle is a recumbent stone circle set on the top of a wee hill near Tarland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Construction started from about 2500 BC, in the Bronze Age, to produce a monument of thirteen granite stones including a massive 6.5-ton recumbent stone lying on its side
I loved this little stone house In the pretty little hamlet of Pont Logel LIwydiarth, In Powys Mid Wales...
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The beautiful Stone Chapel on the Drury University campus in Springfield, Missouri. Drury is my Alma Mater, and next week my husband and are renewing our wedding vows in the chapel. Drury is having this special event for couples who met here and later got married. I’ll let you know if we make it one more week!
The red sandstone construction of the old Dallas County Courthouse (known locally as “Old Red”) rises into the sky over North Texas.
Macro Mondays theme: stone
tan/brown/creamy jade necklace bathed in evening light.
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Textures and colours - the red stones are clay saturated in red oxide and abound in this area in Les Rougiers in SW France
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Stone Creek is a picturesque rural hamlet in East Yorkshire .It consists of a handful of properties and small boats, It flows into the nearby River Humber Estuary ..
The millennium stone in Derwentwater, Keswick, Cumbria (Lake District). Created to mark 100 years of the National Trust in the Lake District.
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On a hot Summer's day this is the best resting place across the pond listening the waterfall and birds singing,
It took 4 people to lift the massive Moss-rock on its footing.
We were extremely fortunate to see this fantastic bird...we were sitting in the car on the Salisbury Plain looking at some young skylarks on the ground and it flew in to within about 40 metres and proceeded to feast on invertebrates in the soil for about 10 minutes...spectacular!
Otavalo, has a population largely made up of the Otavalo indigenous group. They are famous for weaving textiles, usually made of wool, which are sold at the famous market. During the market's peak, almost one third of the town becomes full of stalls selling textiles, tagua nut jewelry, musical instruments, dream catchers, leather goods, fake shrunken heads, indigenous costumes, hand-painted platters and trays, purses, clothing, spices, raw foods and spools of wool.
El mercado de Darajani es el más conocido de Stone Town, la capital de Zanzíbar.
Aparte del pescado "fresco" pululaban miles de moscas y el olor era insoportable.
St Andrew's Church in Winterborne Tomson, Dorset, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 1 June 1972, and was vested in the Trust on 26 March 1974.
The small flint and stone Norman Anglican Church of St Andrew has an apse at the east end and a barrel vault roof which curves around it. The roof was replaced and windows inserted in the 16th century. The oak door is heavily studded. The interior has limewashed walls, a 15th-century font and flag stone floor, along with early 18th-century oak fittings. The eighteenth century oak pews, the pulpit, screen, communion rails and matching table with barley sugar turned legs, and other woodwork were provided by William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, who had been raised in the village of Shapwick and whose family lived locally. The west end has a late medieval gallery with a panelled front which was probably originally a rood screen. The roof is topped by a small weatherboard belfry which resembles a dovecote.
By the early 20th century, the church had fallen into disrepair and was being used as an animal shelter by a local farmer. Repairs were paid for by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings who sold a collection of Thomas Hardy’s manuscripts to raise the funding. The work was supervised by A. R. Powys who also oversaw the work at the Old St Cuthbert's Church, Oborne
The Macro Mondays group’s theme for 6/7 is board game pieces. I chose the strategy game mancala which one source said could have been invented as long ago as 7000 years in Egypt. It consists of a board, today usually made of wood, that has cups carved in. Stones which were probably originally actually stones are placed in each cup and the players move them around the board, trying not to lose their turn. Since the stones have long since disappeared, these are replacement ones for our game.