Reblogged from Journey to Ambeth:
Along winding roads through green fields, the purpling hills beyond, we travelled back to where our journey began – Easter Aquhorthies. We returned to a circle transformed from the screaming wind and rain of the previous day – this time, the sun drew shadows from the stones, the distant peak of Mither Tap clear against patches of blue sky. There was still rain around, but none really came to trouble us as we once more found our stones and learned more about their alignments.
‘My’ stone was warm, welcoming again, and I gave it a gift, something I’d been carrying with me, looking for the right place to leave it. It seemed to have been accepted. I learned that ‘my’ stone aligned with the winter solstice sunset, and also with the viewing platform we could see through the trees… which also lined up with the circle and carved stone in the housing estate beyond. Truly, the people who created these monuments worked on a large scale and with great accuracy, the alignments of sun and moon and land precise to the decimal point.
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Thanks once again for sharing, sue! Just a couple more instalments to write – amazing how much we managed to fit into three days!
My pleasure, Helen. We do seem to stretch the time available somehow, don’t we? 🙂
It’s quite extraordinary how the time seems to stretch! Saturday was a day that seemed to encompass a week’s worth of wonders. Yet still it wasn’t long enough… 🙂
I know…and there are so many other places to visit in that area… I’d need years (or with the way time obliges, at least a few months 🙂 )
😀 A few months would be good…