Old chemistry/geology teacher, mainly reposting pictures of minerals, trilobites and standing stones. Do like a nice tree as well.
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Happy Father's Day 🖤
I promised you a book cover for Hookland Fragments Volume One at Midsummer and here it is:
Sheep shearing from the garden gate & haymaking in perfect weather. The sward is spread to dry, to be rowed up & spun out to dry more, before baling. The air’s scented with its sweet coumarin, lanolin from the sheep fleeces, roses, honeysuckle & lime blossom. There’s a June headiness I adore.
It is, as the sun rises across the landscape of magical Avebury, that the Druid Priest, swathed in white robes with long white hair, emerges from West Kennet Long Barrow to stand atop the mound with his Fae hound. A large dog with red tipped ears.
#summersolstice #avebury #solstice2026
Goodnight from Mary Reed, remembering youthful kisses and feeling a bit teary about all her lost what-if futures as she walks by the music leaking out of The Hole nightclub. Goodnight from John Pool, trying to sober up on Wimpy Bar coffee after Half-there folk glimpse. Goodnight from Hookland.
The Roden Downs; the drovers track from Lowbury Hill down to The Ridgeway.
In those semi-swallowed, feral churches of the county, ghost congregations gather for Evensong. An observation of twilight vespers. All phantom psalms and half-heretical green canticles. It's hard to know whether the Preces are said to the Almighty or the land itself. Maybe there's no difference.
#FossilFriday The iconic Triassic crinoid Encrinus liliformis. This example from Braunschweig, Germany is on display in the Palaeontological Museum in Oslo.
On the climb to Lowbury Hill
In The Shade. 26°C ( on the way to the coast ) Swallows in abundance.
