Yesterday you saw Mitchell’s Fold stone circle in winter light – an ethereal gloaming. This photo is the late spring version. Well, almost. We set off there in warm weather, but by the time we arrived, a weirdly luminous gloom had descended and there was a perishing wind. I was struggling to make the best of the flat light that made the standing stones look dull. I was also trying to show more of the circle which proved difficult with many of the stones fallen flat. I didn’t even notice this chap arrive, but suddenly there he was striding through my shot. And when I looked again, he was gone. It’s at times like that you start thinking a grasp of quantum physics might help.
The other thing you can see between the stones of this four-thousand-year-old circle are signs of Mediaeval ridge and furrow ploughing. A surprising discovery on this exposed upland, but then there is plenty of evidence that Britain’s climate was much warmer back then, i.e. before the descent into the ‘Little Ice Age’ of the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries. The way things change. And so much we don’t know.
Tish Farrell 
Perhaps he was a ‘rolling stone’? 🙂
Ha! Nice one, Trev.
I know what it is! I know!! It’s one of these noses made of wood and stone on which one places eye glasses when they are not on one’s own nose. Who knew that giants wear glasses?! This is what I mean –> https://wordpress.com/post/picturesimperfect2.wordpress.com/2922
I’m a sucker for those mustard yellow/green colors in the tufts of grass there. That’s quintessential Britain in my imagination, tough as a scouring pad.
I like that – tough as a scouring pad. The wind was also doing some scouring on that particular day.
Good for smoothing down the standing rocks, that wind!
Brill
Thanks, Sue.
Hmmm….There doesn’t seem to be a hiding place close by….Very strange.
No, he completely disappeared in plain sight.
He certainly livens up the shot, Tish!
A curious chap though. He didn’t half leg it.
a perishing wind and a phantom passerby – wonderful post Tish with its history and that little aside about quantum physics which made me laugh out loud – have a good weekend despite the rain and some more perishing weather!
And your laughing made me laugh too, Laura. Lots of perishing wind here in Shropshire and more rain to come. But we’ll weather the storm, me dearie. Happy weekend back to you.
he wasn’t there – just one of those stones becoming human. They do that occasionally!
Stunning analysis, Becky. You solved it! And it explains a few gaps in the circle.
But how far have they all got?!
Reminds me of the song “Long Black Veil.”
A spine tingling thought of yours:
You’re welcome.