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| Summer Solstice 2008 | click to return to festival page |
at Avebury
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Sunrise
on 20 June (just in case I didn't see sun rise on solstice dawn ...) |
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| Midsummer Boulevarde, Milton Keynes. Like Stonehenge, it is aligned to the solstice sunrise ... unlike Stonehenge, few people celebrate the event or even know about the alignment - but that is set to change when the new Open University Arts Faculty course AA100 begins |
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Silbury
from the Kennet bridge, on the way to Windmill Hill |
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flower
meadow, Windmill Hill |
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elder
flowers - a scent / sight / taste of summer |
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Last
May blossom, maybe |
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Silbury
from Windmill Hill |
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fire
in the woods for the shortest (wettest) night |
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Solstice
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Sun's up, we're up - rain's coming down "greyraining" as Sarah says. |
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a few hours later, as I prepare to leave the sanctuary of the wood. Isn't all the rain worth it to see the green? |
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the
rain filling the sky tries to fill the bowl of Avebury among the green
white hills |
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on
the road home |
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Old Oak in College Wood (22 June) (see sun shine)
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sun
sky oak |
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slug a long way up oak, coming down ah, nature without human utility - let's sing the praises of, |
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wild
rose in College Wood |
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rose
at our home |
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| and more! the magic garden is scented now |
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iris
in the pond |
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| bee at the catnip another sound of summer |
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24 June 2008 (midsummer eve)