Off to Merrie Olde England....

[Eddie]

The Stonehenge area is awash in crows, ravens, and rooks. Here, a juvenile raven sits atop an upright stone.



At sundown, clouds of rooks descended on the surrounding fields. It was like the Hitchcock movie, "Birds". Creepy, but distinctively British. I remember seeing lots of them in Scotland as a lad. They seemed to prefer perching around medieval churches and harassing lonely passsers-by.

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Nice pics Eddie. You don't realize how big those stones are till you're there, or till you see a reference photo.
Did you go to the visitor center? Do they talk about the mysteries of Stonehenge?

And did you see any cropcircles?

We arrived late in the day, and the visitor center closed just after we arrived, so I didn't get to enter.

We spent most of the week exploring crop circles, and even got to fly over them in microlight aircraft. My own pictures don't do them justice, but you can see them (the crop circles, not my pictures) at www.cropcircleconnector.com .

I was really struck by the beauty of the landscape that could be observed from the crop circles (the genuine ones, anyway). In every genuine circle we entered, the surrounding area was just breathtaking. I attempted to capture the landscapes with my little camera, but it didn't work; I would have needed a very fancy camera with a panoramic lens, but even then, I don't think it would have been possible to reproduce the grandeur and soothing, nurturing beauty of those Wiltshire spots. I think I would like to be buried on Woodborough Hill, overlooking the Vale of Pewsey, although I don't know how that could be arranged.

Woodborough Hill:



Vale of Pewsey: