The weather is much better in that photo, Sue (and I’m still hugging ‘my’ stone). And it did feel a little like what I imagine being in a washing machine is like, so cleansing sounds about right 😀
You really wouldn’t! And, looking at my photos of the following day, once we got back down to the car park there was blue sky. So I think there was something more to it than just weather. I remember at the time thinking ‘what are we doing here?’ Yet none of us seemed to want to leave… 🙂
And I meant to say, when I looked at my photos the following day… sorry! Still processing it all, I think 😀 And I agree about the weather – it seems a bit like a dream now.
It was a ‘stream of consciousness moment’; one of those that acts like a time machine. The flash of memories cut right back to my childhood – seven or eight
Next morning, we gathered at the gates of Bamburgh castle. We had seen it from beyond its walls, considering how we could glimpse our own ‘inner fortifications’ from a perspective
The day was completely fish-related. The high winds had blown the water from the fountain and the level in the pond had dropped. My first jobs of the day were
HYMN TO ATEN O Living Aten When you first took your throne in splendour High in heaven’s precinct, truly did life then begin… From the eastern horizon Risen and streaming
Sigh <3
You might not have been sighing had you been caught in the hail-storm, Alethea! 🙂
Perhaps not. Interestingly, that’s what happened to me at The Nine Ladies stone circle. Felt like a test…
It was described to me by ‘one who knows’ as a purification or baptism… and that made a lot of sense, and not just in this circle, Alethea… 😉
Yes, I rather like that…
🙂
The weather is much better in that photo, Sue (and I’m still hugging ‘my’ stone). And it did feel a little like what I imagine being in a washing machine is like, so cleansing sounds about right 😀
You wouldn’t believe the difference in the weather, would you? 🙂
You really wouldn’t! And, looking at my photos of the following day, once we got back down to the car park there was blue sky. So I think there was something more to it than just weather. I remember at the time thinking ‘what are we doing here?’ Yet none of us seemed to want to leave… 🙂
No, we didn’t… I think we had the weather we needed…as always 🙂
And I meant to say, when I looked at my photos the following day… sorry! Still processing it all, I think 😀 And I agree about the weather – it seems a bit like a dream now.
It does… but things are still bubbling 🙂