366 Photos - 16/366 - Clouds over Stonehenge

[byslantedlight]

Today was a going-to-Stonehenge day. Just cos.




Even the carpark was pretty impressive, cloud-wise... *g*I've been before with the new visitor centre, but this time I decided to walk from there to the stones, and it was actually really nice. It wasn't exactly a peaceful ancient landscape (they were bombing hell out of something somewhere on the Plain, you can still hear the A303, they have the noisiest shuttle buses I've heard for years, and people were allowed to take their children), but you can wander all over the landscape now, which always felt fenced up before, so that was rather good. And I'm always surprised by the way Stonehenge doesn't stand out in the landscape (it's almost in a dip until you get close to it), which wasn't really noticeable before.

Also there's a gift shop, and I may have bought Christmas mead (which you drink warmed up) and a book that's started really well called Blood of the Isles - about our genetic heritage. *g*

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[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Even with all the visitors there it was kind of peaceful - but I usually think that.... *g* Oh, and so small and so huge all at once is a perfect description - it is, isn't it! It's small in comparison to everything we're led to expect now, but it's actually huge! *g*