Photons

How lonely Cosmic Microwave Background photons must be. They were crashed and smashed in a seething mass of particles and photons, and then suddenly, they found themselves travelling alone through endless space for twelve billion years...

Stonehenge

It was a still afternoon with clear blue skies, and my parents and I spent it on a walk around the cursus (3km of ditches and banks) and King's barrows near Stonehenge. The spring sunshine tinged the grass golden, and the landscape was so open that the sky seemed to go on and on. Huge, bare, knobbly old trees guarded the barrows, fat at the base of their trunks like very old panes of glass, and there were snowdrops around the last barrow. I picked up pocketfuls of flint shards from mole hills, in the hope that one of them might be an arrowhead. As we walked back, we saw Stonehenge silhouetted against the setting sun, and I was glad we hadn't joined the tourists mobbing the stones.