THE LONGEST DAY

 

“A life without love is like a year without summer.”

 

~ Swedish Proverb ~

 

Original photo of Stonehenge taken in June 1980.

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RAMPARTS

 

“What is politics, after all,

but the compulsion to preside over property

and make other people’s decisions for them?”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo taken at the Bishop’s Palace in Wells, England in June 2007.

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ONE LAST LONELY LAMP

 

“I said to my soul, be still, and wait…

So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Wells, England in June 2007.

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THE CORRIDOR

 

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Winchester Cathedral, England in June 2007.

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NIGHT SLIPS IN

 

“Darkness will always be…its own master…”

 

~C.K. Mullinax ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Old Sarum, England in July 1982.

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PASS IT ON

 

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the stone circle during the Albion People’s Naming Ceremony at the Stonehenge Free Festival, England on June 21st 1982.

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SLEEPING BEAUTY

 

“When I go out into the countryside and see

the sun and the green and everything flowering,

I say to myself “Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!”

 

~ Henri Rousseau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at the West Kennet Long Barrow in England in July 1983.

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ROADS

 

“You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?”

We didn’t understand his question,

and it was a damned good question.

~ Jack Kerouac ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Winchester, England in June 2007.

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PASTORAL

 

 

…he sat down in the grass before the barrow to wait,

behind him, just a short five-minute walk through

the fields lay Stonehenge…

 

Digital oil painting created from a photo taken at the New Kings Barrows on Salisbury Plain in England in June 2007.

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A SIMPLE MAN

 

“The whole world’s living in a digital dream,
it’s not really there, it’s all on the screen,
makes me forget who I am, I’m an analog man…”

~ Joe Walsh ~

 
 

The simple man and a few friendly cows. Digitally enhanced photo taken at Glastonbury Tor, England in June 2007.

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HIBERNAL SOLSTICE

 

…a time when nightmares seem to last forever…

 

 

Photo of the solstice sun rising over Stonehenge taken in England in 1983.

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HOPES AND DREAMS

 

“…and there will come a time when you can even take your clothes off when you dance…”

~ Frank Zappa ~

Photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.

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TOR

 

…eventually he too gazed upon medusa and turned to stone…

 

 

Photo taken in Cheddar, England in June 2007.

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WATERFALL

 

“She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

Photo taken in Cheddar, England in 2007.

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RAVEN NIGHT

 

…by night all cats are gray…

 

 

Photo taken in Wells, England in June 2007.

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WAIT AND SEE

 

…and the jester was doing the backstroke in the moat…

 

 

Photo of the Bishop’s Palace in Wells, England taken in June 2007.

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REFLECTIONS

 

…still waters moving swiftly, silently…

 

Photo taken in Winchester, England in June 2007.

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THE YOKE

 

…crawling out of the medieval muck of doctrinal bondage

is the first step to secular sensibility on the road to the stars…

 

 

Photo taken in St Michael’s Tower on the Glastonbury Tor in England in June 2007.

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TAPESTRY

 

…we view the tapestry of the life we are weaving from the backside,

with all its knots, tangles and loose threads,

every now and then we must get up, walk around to the other side

and look at what we’ve been creating…

 

 

Photo of Stonehenge taken on the Solstice afternoon, June 21st 2007 on the Salisbury Plain, England.

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STONES

 

 

…the milk of human kindness will become

the curdled cream of human folly…

 

 

 

Photo taken within the stone circle of Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain, England on the eve of the Summer Solstice June 20th 2007.

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