A busy day at all British henge sites, as staff work to move the stones forward an hour. Twice a year the stones at Avebury are moved for Daylight Saving Time.
Image description:
A black work truck with a National Trust logo is towing a utility trailer containing a trailer-sized grey boulder past several widely spaced large stones, each of which is about twice as high as the truck. There are no roads or other rocks in sight, just the standing stones on a plane of bright green grass, looming out of the fog.
Image description (respectfully edited for context)
A black work truck with a National Trust logo towing a utility trailer, which due to position and perspective creates the illusion it is carrying a trailer-sized grey stone past several widely spaced standing stones, each about twice as high as the truck. Only the truck, trailer and standing stones on bright green grass are visible, looming out of thick fog. #Alt4You@TiciaVerveer
My pleasure! It's a great shot, gave me a laugh! 😁
(And also gave me fond memories of visiting Avebury many years ago. It was a similar level of fog when I first arrived, and saw stones looming out of the mist either side of the car!)
Haha! @imalcolm, I knew they weren't actually moving the standing stones for Daylight Savings, but I had no idea the huge "towed" rock was a trick of perspective, thank you! It is an even cooler photo now. This is what comes of someone with #LowVision (and living in the US, home to way too many absurdly large trucks) writing image descriptions.
I'd actually debated a while before hitting 'send', but finally did as I reasoned you'd written the text being a lovely and helpful fedi person, but to be totally accurate the illusion also needed to be noted. Just relived you weren't offended by my small tweak!
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