Hello, everyone! Hope you all had a nice weekend 🙂 I’ve been away since Friday with little to no wi-fi coverage, so I’m a bit behind on blog posts and comments – sorry! There have also been a few new visitors and followers here, so I just want to say welcome, and thanks for coming on the journey with me.
My weekend away was at a Silent Eye workshop – I have a great interest in the ancient history of Britain, and this was a chance to get up close and personal with some wonderful monuments left by our enigmatic ancestors. And it was… intense. A lot happened, and I will be writing about it here, but I just need a few days for it to all ripple and resonate until it settles. For now, I’ll leave you with the above photo, taken at sunrise yesterday morning, and a poem I wrote for the weekend, which turned out to be quite useful.
Stones lie sleeping
Where once they stood in majesty
Stones lie sleeping
Knowledge lost beyond safekeeping
Yet power here still ranges free
It beats within the heart of me
Stones lie sleeping
Where land meets sky
And all is not quite as it seems
Where land meets sky
Stones tell a tale of years gone by
Secrets revealed by sunlit gleams
Sleepers awake! Tell us your dreams
Where land meets sky
The poem was more than…useful 🙂 x
Thank you, Sue 🙂 x
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Thanks for the reblog, Sue!
Thank you for being with us, Helen 🙂
It was wonderful, my pleasure 🙂
🙂
Super shot, Helen… x
Thanks, Stuart – I seemed to get a few shots like that over the weekend – it was a spectacular place in many ways… x
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Thanks for the reblog, Stu x
You are most welcome… x
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Helen joined us for the weekend in ancient Derbyshire… (Part One)
Thanks for the reblog, and the wonderful weekend, Steve 🙂
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Thanks so much for the reblog! 🙂
Lovely – looking forward to hearing more!
Yes – I think it will take me a week or so to process, but there’s a bit to tell 🙂
Lovely photo and poem. It sounds like you had a wonderful weekend 🙂
Thank you 🙂 It was a rather wonderful weekend, definitely. 🙂
Lovely poem. Glad you enjoyed the workshop (they do sound tempting!). And no wi-fi for the weekend…we all need that sometimes!
Thanks, Mick 🙂 It was a really interesting workshop, and the no wi-fi just added to it, really. Though I am now very behind on catching up with blogs!
Oh, I can do that even when there is wi-fi
hehe, me too 🙂
Ah, that poem was absolutely gorgeous! So chilling and magical and loaded with wonder! I love it!
Thanks so much, Natasha! So pleased you like it 🙂 It turned out to be quite prescient in terms of the weekend we had, too…
Wow, that must have been a really awesome weekend. 😛
It was really cool – I’ll be writing about it shortly, just letting it all sink in 🙂
I look forward to reading it!
Hope you had a lovely weekend. Stunning photo!
Thanks, Sarah, I really did 🙂 Hope you did too x
Sounds to have been an inspirational weekend.
It really was, Judith – quite an interesting weekend! 🙂
Beautiful!!
Thanks, Traci 😀
You’re welcome!!