I spent hours there over two days. The conditions were special. Scotland's worse snow and cold for many years. I was the only visitor and have posted some of the hundreds of photos I took. The monument is a supreme work of art. Each stone has its own character. They form different patterns as you move around and seem to dance. The stones are all Lewisian Gneiss, a metamorphic rock about 2,000 million years old.
"Hardened by time, softened by the consciousness of ones like you, John."
That's a fantastic thought, but these rocks, in their metamorphic period, did flow very slowly as they recrystallised. The same rocks are in N America but now separated from us by the Atlantic Ocean which formed due to continental drift.
I've got to drift away too.
