Stonehenge

British Teotihuacán 
Stonehenge 
Firestone

Stony Point

Tenuous 

Tennessee

Blue 

Psalms 16:8
“I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”

 

 2 Chronicles 15:7
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 CHAPTER I. — THE QUARRY.
[FIRST OF THE OLD EDITION.]
SECTION I. Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness, if it forget their example, may be led through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction.

The exaltation, the sin, and the punishment of Tyre have been recorded for us, in perhaps the most touching words ever uttered by the Prophets of Israel against the cities of the stranger. But we read them as a lovely song; and close our ears to the sternness of their warning: for the very depth of the Fall of Tyre has blinded us to its reality, and we forget, as we watch the bleaching of the rocks between the sunshine and the sea, that they were once "as in Eden, the garden of God."

Her successor, like her in perfection of beauty, though less in endurance of dominion, is still left for our beholding in the final period of her decline: a ghost upon the sands of the sea, so weak—so quiet,—so bereft of all but her loveliness, that we might well doubt, as we watched her faint reflection in the mirage of the lagoon, which was the City, and which the Shadow.

I would endeavor to trace the lines of this image before it be for ever lost, and to record, as far as I may, the warning which seems to me to be uttered by every one of the fast-gaining waves, that beat, like passing bells, against the STONES OF VENICE.~~~Ruskin

 

 

 

 

 

Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "British Teotihuacán" "Stonehenge" "Firestone" "Stony Point" "Tenuous" "Blue"

John Donne

John Donne
Stonehenge
Easter Island 

Isaiah 32:2
“And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”

 

 

 

 

Russia: Kristina Pimenova

Air and Angels
John Donne

Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be;
         Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
         But since my soul, whose child love is,
Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,
         More subtle than the parent is
Love must not be, but take a body too;
         And therefore what thou wert, and who,
                I bid Love ask, and now
That it assume thy body, I allow,
And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.

Whilst thus to ballast love I thought,
And so more steadily to have gone,
With wares which would sink admiration,
I saw I had love's pinnace overfraught;
         Ev'ry thy hair for love to work upon
Is much too much, some fitter must be sought;
         For, nor in nothing, nor in things
Extreme, and scatt'ring bright, can love inhere;
         Then, as an angel, face, and wings
Of air, not pure as it, yet pure, doth wear,
         So thy love may be my love's sphere;
                Just such disparity
As is 'twixt air and angels' purity,
'Twixt women's love, and men's, will ever be.

Chess: "John Donne" "Stonehenge" "Easter Island"

Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones
Stonehenge
Stony Point
Stone Mountain
Alto

Psalm 97:9
"For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods."

"When, like a running grave, time tracks you down"~~~ Dylan Thomas

Walk in the footsteps of your Neolithic ancestors at Stonehenge – one of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe. Explore the ancient landscape on foot and step inside the Neolithic Houses to discover the tools and objects of everyday Neolithic life.

Stony Point

The Battlefield:  Stony Point was the scene of a major battle during the Revolutionary War.  The British had begun to fortify Stony Point in order to protect King's Ferry, which ran between there and Verplanck Point on the east side of the river.  They were using this area to launch strikes into Connecticut.  At one point 1000 British soldiers were stationed here. 

TRAFFIC

Interstate 80, seen here in Berkeley, California, is a freeway with many lanes and heavy traffic.

Chess: "Rolling Stones" "Stonehenge" "Stony Point" "Stone Mountain" "Alto"

Stonehenge

Stonehenge
London Eye
Big Ben
Orange

Luke 9:1
"Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases."

"now and then he jolted a nodding reader awake by inserting a witty paragraph"~~~Walter Blair

 At ground level, the ruins of Stonehenge appear somewhat random and chaotic, but a view from the air reveals the monument's circular order. The site started out modestly around 3100 B.C. as a wide ring of wood posts surrounded by a ditch and bank. The familiar enormous rock slabs, some brought from hundreds of miles away, were added to the interior over a period of about 1,500 years.

 

The London Eye, London 

Costa Rica typical cart-

 What makes London London - Big Ben, cab, phone box

Chess:  "Stonehenge" "London Eye" "Big Ben " "Orange"

Stonehenge
Sarah
Gen 18:9
"And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent."

Vatican20
Vatican City From Above

Chess: "Sarah" "Stonehenge"