Day trip to Arbor Low Stone Circle
Arbor Low Stone Circle is an ancient momument, approximately 3,000 - 6,000 years old. It's about an hour-and-a-half drive from home -- I can't say for sure, having taken a couple of wrong turns getting there. :-D) This site is on a private farm, which means you get to walk through a farm and some of its fields to get there. Being Not From Farm Country, I'm afraid I was nearly as taken with the farm-stuff as with the site itself. Also, as I arrived at around the same time several other large-ish groups did, I wasn't able to take any photos of the whole circle. I have a weird thing about not wanting people in my scenic photos, and one of the groups spent the whole time I was there gathered at the stones in the centre. I think they were a group of pagans getting ready to celebrate a ritual of some kind. I didn't quite have the nerve to ask if I could join them.
So, in the end, I think I took more farm photos than stone photos, but I spent a lot of time at the circle, soaking up the energy of the earth, the stones, and the sunshine. Oh, and I bought a dozen fresh eggs from the farmer....so fresh he had to actually walk up to the hen house to get them!
The field in front of the parking area
© 2011 Terie Garrison
A Very Large (to me) Tractor moving freshly mown hay (or some such)
© 2011 Terie Garrison
If you're into Large Machinery, you can see more pix of the tractor here, here, and here. I actually took these on behalf of e_moon60's DH, who recently had surgery and is currently prohibited from handling Large Machinery until he's more healed. R--, enjoy!
Cows munching away
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Just Too Damn Cute -- and knows it!
© 2011 Terie Garrison
And now for what you really came for.... The Henge Itself
A view of the entrance to the henge
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And the stones
© 2011 Terie Garrison
© 2011 Terie Garrison
© 2011 Terie Garrison
© 2011 Terie Garrison
In farewell, a shot of the new-mown field. Silly me, I always envisioned the 'colour of a new-mown field' to be a pale gold. Imagine my surprise and delight to discover that it's really a bright but soft green. Not sure Internet photos can do justice to the real thing.
© 2011 Terie Garrison
I'm off work on vacation the next two weeks, and hope to do a few more day trips, in addition ot other things I need to take care of.
So, in the end, I think I took more farm photos than stone photos, but I spent a lot of time at the circle, soaking up the energy of the earth, the stones, and the sunshine. Oh, and I bought a dozen fresh eggs from the farmer....so fresh he had to actually walk up to the hen house to get them!
The field in front of the parking area
© 2011 Terie Garrison
A Very Large (to me) Tractor moving freshly mown hay (or some such)
© 2011 Terie Garrison
If you're into Large Machinery, you can see more pix of the tractor here, here, and here. I actually took these on behalf of e_moon60's DH, who recently had surgery and is currently prohibited from handling Large Machinery until he's more healed. R--, enjoy!
Cows munching away
© 2011 Terie Garrison
Just Too Damn Cute -- and knows it!
© 2011 Terie Garrison
And now for what you really came for.... The Henge Itself
A view of the entrance to the henge
© 2011 Terie Garrison
And the stones
© 2011 Terie Garrison
© 2011 Terie Garrison
© 2011 Terie Garrison
© 2011 Terie Garrison
In farewell, a shot of the new-mown field. Silly me, I always envisioned the 'colour of a new-mown field' to be a pale gold. Imagine my surprise and delight to discover that it's really a bright but soft green. Not sure Internet photos can do justice to the real thing.
© 2011 Terie Garrison
I'm off work on vacation the next two weeks, and hope to do a few more day trips, in addition ot other things I need to take care of.