I don't think this needs any explanation!
Love this place... I remember wandering around and between the stones as a child and wondering about who made them, and why.... I was appalled at the graffiti even then and am not surprised that tourists are kept at bay now.
After the storms the day before, I had imagined cloudy skies and making a moody B&W shot.. but walking across Salisbury plain towards the site, past ancient barrows while hearing skylarks singing in the clear blue sunshine was precious so I'll settle with it!
Thanks for calling by - gosh you're looking gorgeous today! mwah :)
I have never been here & was really surprised when you mentioned graffiti! I thought this was a sort if holy type place where you communed beautiful thoughts! Graffiti sounds terrible! It's a very impressive place & you have a great capture here.
@happypat The stones were closed off from the general public from 1978, so I would have been very young (!!) but remember seeing initials scratched into the stone, and being quite disgusted that folk had no respect for something so ancient... I suppose that was the appeal. Apparently it was built something like 1000 years before the druids but yes, it's thought to have been some sort of sacred ground, aligned to the sun etc among burial grounds. I guess we'll never know what it was for, or why on earth early man, for whom survival must have been a battle, would see fit to make it..?
This just took me at lightning speed back to the only time I've ever been fortunate enough to visit there! I have to wonder what it must have been like as a child to stroll there and contemplate! We all have lives filled with so many different stories to tell! Thanks for posting this!
