Good choice!

Rollrights today, in a bitter wind ❤️❤️

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones #Rollrights

Agreed! We did Stonehenge the same day, & it was so crowded - it’s difficult to feel any sense of magic then

❤️❤️ Avebury, summer 2025

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones

My fave stone. Yeah, hugged it

Avebury, summer 2025

#StandingStoneSunday #StandingStone #StoneCircle

Lonely sea and skies. Although what you can’t see is the herd of family corralled behind me, ready to stampede past 😆

#photos #phonephotos #Pembrokeshire #PembrokeshireCoast

This is fascinating, an exploration of Paganism‘s history & practices. It nimbly assesses its sources & is so knowledgeable, exploding a few myths (see below!) & really making me think.

Written with a most pleasing dry wit too. Recommend ❤️

#booksky #bookrecommendations #books #pagan

#Castlerigg

Just look at those moody mountains. And beautiful stones, in their saucy little Neolithic way.

I can highly recommend this one for stone circle fans, it’s spectacular ❤️

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles

#Castlerigg

The most stunning setting for a stone circle, surely. Plus really photogenic stones.

No wonder the Romantics strode about writing about nature & stuff. This place gets you like that.

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles #RomanticPoets #Wordsworth #Literature #Poetry

Swinside - a wonderfully remote & peaceful standing stone circle. Although I think maybe a few stones didn’t get the brief

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones

She was an elfin pinnace

#booksky #literature #Wordsworth #poetry #kayaks #Lakes

Ah, thanks. So, Steve joins me in the garden …

Pete, joining me for an evening glass of wine in the garden.

Is this a peregrine falcon, anyone? If not, I’ll have to rename him

#birds #bluebirdsky #britishbirds #gardens #gardenbirds

Apollo 11.
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!

😆 Excellent!
At this stage I either forget about hands or about controlling for wine. I think I may be looking at the longest running experiment ever

I have questions …

That chance visit to an art gallery, and there’s a piece by one of your favourite sculptors there ❤️
I may have had to be dragged away from it by a friend. And I may or may not have been blowing kisses to it (quietly) 😗

Look at it, though

#art #sculpture #gallery #BarbaraHepworth #Amgueddfa

Utterly fascinated by this, about hands in dreams.

Realised I’ve never dreamt about hands. Weekend spent focusing on them to try to induce a dream & test the theory. So far, no luck.

May have to control for wine.

#booksky #books #bookrecommendations #neuroscience #psychology #dreams

‘Music will often take me like the sea!’
When clouds are low
Or in clear ether, I towards my pale star,
Set sail and go;’

Baudelaire

#booksky #literature #bookrecommendations #poetry #Baudelaire #TheFlowersOfEvil

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

Friday

#art #ArtGallery

Vowed yesterday not to buy more books. Immediately bought this.

It’s so good! Psychology, science, anthropology of dreams, looking at patterns across regions & times, brain activity etc.

Feel I can research this by napping, too, so 👍🏻

#booksky #bookrecommendations #science #neuroscience #books

The King’s Stone

Looking particularly regal today, if I may say so

#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday
#RollrightStones

This is how we roll, right?

#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday

Cheers 🍸

As thus he sat beneath an oak
An acorn fell abruptly
And smote his nose: whereat he spoke
Of acorns most corruptly.

Fables for the Frivolous (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/fables-for-th...

I’m finally getting round to reading some #Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil.

I wonder if he was inspired by Marvell’s Coy Mistress? Quite a few worms as memento mori for beauty - suitably passionate & grim, carpe diem. He did love a juxtaposition.

#booksky #poetry #literature #bookrecommendations

So far today:

Time spent writing: 1 hour
Time spent obsessively trying to get photo of squirrel in garden: 1 hour

Look at him, though 🐿️

#writingcommunity #writers #writerslife #writersofbluesky

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