I realized that I never did finish posting my pictures from England, 2004. I hadn’t scanned them all, you see. I bought a nice scanner with the idea of gradually converting my vast library of photographs taken with my Canon AE-1, but it’s been a little (a lot) more gradual than I’d visualized.

So here’s my pictures of our visit to Avebury.  You can view the entire mindbogglingly big set here.

lynn and avebury ghosts

I didn’t get many pictures of Avebury this trip. In fact, the three on this page are it. I took a couple of rolls on a previous trip, but this day the rain poured down (ah, spring in England)—hence the “ghosts” surrounding Lynn. We spent a lot of time in various gift shops, the museum, and the cafeteria, where I had a wonderful vegetable hash and hot tea that took the chill off. That meal was the highlight of the day and I still remember how good it tasted after being so thoroughly drenched and chilled to the bone.

At least we didn’t have to pay for parking. A gentleman who had purchased an all-day parking ticket decided it was too rainy to be worth it and gave it to us instead.  Bonny gentleman!

Ann, who had gone off for a few days to visit a friend elsewhere, didn’t say so but I’m sure she thought our drenching was no better than we deserved for sneaking off to Avebury without her.

the sheltering of the lambs

The spring lambs sheltering against one of the great stones. They were smarter than we were, but poor Lynn had never been to Avebury so we gave it a game try. She didn’t get to see much and almost got ran over by a git in a speeding roadster.

me, avebury

I’m glad I chose such a wide stone to rest against. In case you can’t tell, my jeans from the coat hem down are absolutely saturated.