andygreyweather
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Hare Stone moan
Jun 24, 2005, 23:34
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A couple of years ago I championed the cause of a few small stones that exuded a warmth and charm so little found in North West London's suburban growth.
Stanmore Common (In the County of Middlesex) is worth a wander for a lovely bell barrow and ... a very eroded yet funky long barrow, set beside a small stream that forks majestically like the parted legs of a fertile Goddess ... sorry gentle reader, I'm off again ... but it has to be one of the most Hobitesque places inside the M25!
Anyway, I know, your dinner's getting cold .... OK, OK, OK ... getting to the point .... The Hare Stone .... it's grown over almost completely with the kind of passe' suburban shrub that your Aunty planted in memory of that much loved dead cat that no one remembers the name of in 1985.
I have contacted some folk who went silent ... but I shall, at this rate, take my shears to the offending shrub one moon lit night soon!
I will eventually get to the sacred springs of suburbia story too .... there are lots and a great starting place for your mystic quest would be 'The Lost Rivers of London'.
Now it might bog folk off that I planted either side of my path with lavender ... in a Stone Circle .... but thats kind of historic to me .... the planting bit .... it smells wonderful and until someone blitzes the place and reconstructs the Keiller image ... OK, I'm off on one again .... but listen gentle reader .... trim the Hare!
(This has nothing to do with the Hare Krishna Temple at Letchmore Heath ... but their foods OK).
TRIM THE HARE ... LET PEOPLE STARE ... IT IS A GOOD STONE! (END OF MOAN).
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Littlestone
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 00:01
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Hi Andy. Thanks for the smell of lavender on this hot and sticky night :-)
The first line in your post just jogged my memory of something. You wrote, "...a few small stones that exuded a warmth and charm..." I'm going off at a tangent I'm afraid but when I was at Avebury last Saturday night (after a very hot day there) I could feel the stones radiating back some of the heat they'd absorbed during the day. It crossed my mind that the stones would make a <i>fantastic</i> photo if taken with infrared film. Perhaps it's already been done - Pete? Cian? If not I'll get my old Nikon F2A out and give it a go :-)
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andygreyweather
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 10:19
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Sometimes stones emit an aura in photographs, probably hot-spot related ... like moisture showing up as orbs ... Pete would probably be best placed to answer the piccy-tech quezzies though!
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FourWinds
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Infrared ... nice!
Jun 25, 2005, 10:47
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http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/user/1388
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StoneLifter
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 11:01
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Infra-red is a large band of energy. The photographs we know are taken in the Near Infra Red and the heat we feel radiating from stones is in the Far Infra Red (or similar). An image taken of radiated heat wouldn't be a photograph but, rather, a Thermogram (perhaps).
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Littlestone
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 12:51
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Thanks StoneLifter. I remember years ago seeing a photo of a hot iron (a smoothing iron) taken with infrared sensitive film. The iron would have been hotter than the small (though physically detectable) amount of heat being released by the stones at Avebury and I wondered if, at the right temperature, they'd be in the right band to register on infrared sensitive film. Do have a roll of Kodak High speed infrared (HIE 135-36) in the fridge so might give it a go.
PS Thanks FW - just seen those photos but are they taken with infrared? Only whizzed through them but don't see any technical info.
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Ishmael
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 15:22
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For Infra-Red the Ragged Rascals would be the people to ask
http://www.megalithics.co.uk/
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Lubin
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 16:43
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That's a good idea.Keep them visible for as long as possible.I always cut back long grass reeds bracken etc from around small stones and kists on Dartmoor when I visit them.Unfortunately some have been lost to the undergroth for ever.
Peace Lubin.
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Littlestone
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 17:25
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Lubin, no disrespect intended, but I'd like to ask why you avoid spaces between one sentence and another - re: your, "That's a good idea.Keep them visible for as long as possible."
I'm quite interested in typography and wonder if this style of writing is expressing something I've otherwise missed?
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andygreyweather
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Re: Hare Stone moan
Jun 25, 2005, 17:59
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I put dots between my words like this ... I guess this makes me dotty!
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