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Hart Hill Close… Stuart France

* Question: * * How * * Many * * Stones * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Missing the mark

A new footpath has been installed close to the village, running for a few miles through the silent, empty fields. One of its entrances gives onto the road I travel every day and I have watched with mild curiosity as … Continue reading

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Forty-Five Degrees of Separation… Stuart France

* There’s here And there’s there… Nobody knows quite what or where there is Everybody thinks they know what and where here is… Continue reading at Stuart France

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Stanton Drew ~ Stuart France

* Names matter. For practical purposes they are like elephants and flowing water. They follow the shortest, flatest path to wherever they are going, and en route the jagged edges first get smoothed and then get worn away. In this … Continue reading

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Hagiology… Stuart France

* How big is the body? * * Big as a house… * * Big as a temple… ** Big as a mountain… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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The Twelve Apostles and Burley Moor ~ Mark Sunderland

Reblogged from Mark Sunderland Photography ~ Mark visits a place close to my heart. Please click through to see the rest of his gorgeous pictures of one of my favourite stone circles: I thought it was a bit ironic as … Continue reading

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Earth to earth #midnighthaiku

When the meadows dance Lay your head on my pillow And forget the world No breast is softer No bride wears a fairer gown No perfume so sweet Breathe in my essence Bury yourself in beauty Remember your own My … Continue reading

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Across moorland… Stuart France

* These strange, narrow tracks betoken something, processional, perhaps… exhaling us where they do with little work to accomplish. * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Yet another disappearing stone… Stuart France

* “It’s got a ‘wen’ in it!” * And if we had not already twigged that really should have clinched it! * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Morrow… Stuart France

* …Well, if they did, they also intended us to work for it. * Part of our problem proved to be scale. What we call a lay-by is large and well marked. What they call a lay-by is more of … Continue reading

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