#SilentSunday serenity meets ancient wonder 
Today’s stillness carries stories carved in stone — pause, breathe, and let the silence speak. 
Have you ever felt the energy of a standing stone?
Share your peaceful moment or favorite ancient spot below.
#StandingStoneSunday | #MindfulMoments | #NatureVibes | #MysticEarth
Boost to share the stillness 
I picked up this post card for 20p at a boot sale. It's undated but on the back it states: 'S.1. Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Stonehenge from the east, as it might have appeared in the final phase of its construction, about 1400 BC. From a drawing by Alan Sorrell. Crown Copyright.' #StandingStoneSunday
For #StandingStoneSunday here's a particularly intriguing one, at Waun Mawn in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, which I visited last month. Recent studies seem to support the suggestion that stones now at Stonehenge were previously part of an earlier stone circle here, which was dismantled, transported to Salisbury Plain and reconstructed there. See
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/original-stonehenge-a-dismantled-stone-circle-in-the-preseli-hills-of-west-wales/B7DAA4A7792B4DAB57DDE0E3136FBC33
Second photo showing me in front of the stone included for scale rather than vanity (I'm 1.81 m tall, or 5 ft 11 ins for anyone who still thinks in imperial units).
More to Lose
The European goldfinch is a small, colorful bird from Europe. They are found across Europe North Africa, and parts of Asia
Credits: iain_bru
#birds #photography #wildlife #mastodon #実は嫌いなことを晒せ #wildlifephotography #nature #SilentSunday #icecreambooksandplays #travel #ら行に殺すをつけるといろいろやばい #science #かと打って彼氏や彼女がでてこなかったらお前一生非リア #予測変換1番最初に出てきたやつで文章をつくる #StandingStoneSunday #north #africa #asia #europe
Disclaimer: Photo may be AI-generated or enhanced.
Printed monochrome postcard showing the Devil's Den near Marlborough in Wiltshire. Published by F. Frith & Co Ltd, Reigate, Frith' Series, № 46874, photo registered in 1901. Postally unused, but is c.1905.
In The Moment
2 Birds Fighting
Credits: Daniel Riddle
#photography #birds #nature #icecreambooksandplays #SilentSunday #StandingStoneSunday #mastodon #science #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #Travel #StarTrek #PhotographersOfMastodon
Disclaimer: Photo may be AI-generated or enhanced.
OVER
Incredibly rare 'Solar Halo' spotted over Stonehenge 
#astrophotography
#astro
#sunset
#space
#nature
#nasa
#art
#photography
#space
#science
#clouds
#icecreambooksandplays
#SilentSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
#mastodon
Disclaimer: Photo may be AI-generated or enhanced.
NO DAYS OFF
Ornate Hawk-Eagle,
Mexico 
,
Brazil 
,
Argentina 
,
The ornate hawk-eagle (Spizaetus ornatus) is a fairly large bird of prey from the tropical Americas
#photography #nature #wildlife #birds #hummingbirds #birdphotography #science #mastodon #wildlifephotography
#icecreambooksandplays
#SilentSunday #ら行に殺すをつけるといろいろやばい
#StandingStoneSunday
#ILikeToWatch
Disclaimer: Photo may be AI-generated or enhanced.
Fernacre Stone Circle, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, UK
Situated in the shadow of Rough Tor (Rough is pronounced "row" and even that switches between "row" your boat or "row" as in a fight).
A site made fictionally famous in The Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier.
This is a pen and ink watercolour I made of the site.
More of my art lives on my kofi page and my website. Donations welcome.
The terminal menhir (№ 3, B or N4) at the end of Stone Row (№ 3, B or N3) at Drizzlecombe on Dartmoor, Devon. Photographed from the north-east on 27 August 1994.
For #StandingStoneSunday, here's Iberia's only known cross-shaped alignment of standing stones: the Megalithic Cruciform of Alto da Cruz
More here: https://prehistoricportugal.com/2025/08/menires-do-alto-da-cruz/
Tomnaverie stone circle, Howe of Cromar, Aberdeenshire. A recumbent stone in an outer circle with central cairn. Tue 29th July 2025
#StandingStoneSunday
Lostmarc'h menhir, 2.8 metres tall, standing on a headland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Finistère, #Brittany #StandingStoneSunday
Many more pics on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=23478
Cup and ring marked rock at Old Bewick in Northumberland for today's #StandingStoneSunday
It's a wonderful stone in a reallly good area for walking and looking at old stuff. My visit was nearly 10 years back, doesn't seem that long ago.
Some Monmouthshire chambered tomb action for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Gaer Llwyd ('Grey Fort') Neolithic chambered tomb near Usk. In folklore the tomb was the result of a game of megalithic quoits between Twm Sion Catti and the Devil.
Visited June 2012, when there was a donkey living in the field.
Cup and ring rock art (Knock 4) at Clarksburn Woods, Monreith.
#StandingStoneSunday #Scotland #Galloway #blackandwhitephotography
Long Stone is a menhir between Longstone Barrow and Chapman Barrow in Exmoor in very boggy land. The stone stands about three metres high and almost as much below the surface as standing. There is a smaller companion, known as a trigger stone, 0.7 m high. #StandingStoneSunday
