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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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The Callanish Stones are an arrangement of standing stones placed in a cruciform pattern with a central stone circle.
They were erected in the late Neolithic era, and were a focus for ritual activity during the Bronze Age. They are near the village of Callanish on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland (source: Wikipedia).
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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
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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"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.
In a quiet moment...
Feel your oneness with earth and imagine you have roots grounding in the earth,
while your spirit still soars with the breeze into the vastness of the universe.
Zen is more of an attitude than a belief.
Zen is the peace that arises through the unity of oneself with a wholeness, a being that is of a different nature than oneself.
Zen means being aware of the oneness of oneself with the world and everything in it.
Zen means living in the present and experiencing it through and through.
Zen means being free from the distractions and deceptive conflicts of the material world.
Zen means being in tune with the universal course of things.
Zen is to fully experience the present and to enjoy the fundamental miracle of life itself.
🌄 Wishing Everyone a Good Day with Balance
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!
A study of some of the rivulets formed as a stream cascaded over a rock on the slopes of Padley Gorge, Derbyshire.
The Hurlers stone circles are a group of 3 stone circles on Bodmin `Moor, Cornwall.
The name "Hurlers" derives from a legend, in which men were playing Cornish hurling on a Sunday and were magically transformed into stones as punishment.
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 ..
At a versatile request of a single lady now exclusively the blooming stone rose. The photo of its bud I posted on monday. Ok ... I would have posted it anyway.
Auf vielseitigen Wunsch einer einzelnen Dame hier exklusiv nun die blühenden Steinrosen der Knospe ich am Montag gezeigt habe. Ok ... ich hätte es sowieso gepostet.
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Looking close... on Friday!
Pebbles
As a general rule, geologists perceive all stones and pebbles as rocks, but not all rocks are considered stones (or pebbles). A pebble is a small stone that has had its edges smoothed by water erosion.
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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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For the "Looking close... on Friday!"- theme: "a single stone".
I found this painted stone on one of my walks in Corona-time, when everything was shut down and closed.
It was a trend at the time.
First, people would look for stones, then paint them at home and place them in a visible spot in the forest or elsewhere, where other walkers would also come. You could take them with you and place them somewhere else or take them home. I found this one so heartwarming that I kept it.
Wishing you a happy smiling Friday ;-))
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!
About 40 meters to the left of the ahu Te Pito Kura is a large completely polished oval rock surrounded by a stone wall and four other stones that serve as chairs. Legend has it that the Ariki Hotu Matua’a, the first king of the island, came to Easter Island carrying this huge stone bearing mana (spiritual power granted by the gods).