There are many prehistoric stone circles in Aberdeenshire.    They are small compared to the likes of Stonehenge, but still wonderful and mysterious.  I took the dogs for a walk yesterday through the woods in the Strichen community park and we found ourselves following the path up the little hill to the Strichen stone circle.

I had planned to publish one of the pictures I took of the dogs on the stones, but I have changed my mind.  When I uploaded the pictures to Flickr, I quickly received two favourable comments, one from Munich and one from Slovenia, from people who liked one of the pictures.  It was taken half way up the hill where I stopped to watch a tractor working in a field.   It was not a sunny day, but the greenness of the Aberdeenshire countryside is very much in evidence.  We often take the ordinary countryside round about us for granted, but it clearly touched at least two people in far away places in Europe.

Perhaps I will publish a pictures of the ancient Aberdeenshire stones another day.