After following Lava Canyon‘s geologic history along a rocky trail, I went looking for other stony encounters I’ve unearthed on my travels. Here’s what I came up with – ancient stone temples in Guatemala.
The impressive and unexpectedly beautiful hand-hewn New Croton Dam, which supplies New York with much of its water.
A little touch of Irish romance off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; a gravestone on Whidbey Island.
Great stony windows in Utah’s glorious Arches National Park.
Are you ready to rock this week’s travel theme? If you would like to join in (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:
- Create your own post and title it Travel theme: Stone
- Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
- Get your post in by next Thursday, as the new travel theme comes out on Friday
- Don’t forget to subscribe to keep up to date on the latest weekly travel themes. Sign up via the email subscription link in the sidebar or RSS – I’m in the process of changing over to a new website host but will give you all a heads up when the changeover happens.
xxx Ailsa
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” – Tennessee Williams
“Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairytale, by love.” – Ben Okri
Where's my backpack? 
Wonderful s hots! And I’ve nominated you as Versatile Blogger. You don’t have to play it forward if you don’t want.
http://tvortravels.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/1088/
That Utah photo looks so like the Kimberley region of Western Australia. An American friend who has been to both places said they are amazingly similar.
Such a great variety of photos Alisa! My stone photos from a hike by Mt. Baker are here: http://nwframeofmind.com/2013/10/27/travel-theme-stone/
G’day… No, I’m not in Australia, but I moved… I put some photos from my new hometown Mauléon and two others places not so far from me, La Rochelle and Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, la Vendée… Enjoy the French countryside and the historical city La Rochelle…
http://mariadesuede.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/trois-lieux-trois-departements-tout-en-pierres-wheres-my-backpack-stone/
Stunning images. Really liked ur post and pictures of Croton Dam. I wish I had known about it earlier
My contribution for the theme
http://travtrails.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/stoney-tales-ailsas/
Indra
Sometimes there just ain’t enough rocks… Forrest Gump http://vosperdruiter.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/stone-ailsas-wtt/
I love your take on your theme!
Here is my response to this week’s prompt: Stone Walls. http://wp.me/p1tzBV-2cC
Love the pictures but the one of the dam was very impressive, am following you but won’t have time to do your challenge as I’m winding up my creative side for the nanowrimo challenge. (thank you for visiting my blog.)
That stone window is fantastic!
Here’s my effort… I’ve gone with a single place this time: http://confuzzledom.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/travel-theme-stone/
Hi Ailsa, liked your stone images…especially the Guatamalan temples, where the colours in the sky chimed in with the stone. Just one image of a stone circle in Scotland from me: http://suejudd.com/2013/10/28/travel-theme-stone/
Hi Ailsa, That Whidbey Island post was so interesting, and the headstone a lovely reminder of it. See my contribution to this week’s theme here: http://wildsherkin.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/travel-theme-stone/
Hi Ailsa, I may be going straight into your Spam folder as my comments don’t seem to appear… Second time lucky! Love your theme. 🙂 Here is my contribution:
http://wildsherkin.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/travel-theme-stone/#like-1876
Great theme, Ailsa, and I love Utah’s stony windows. Here’s my contribution:
http://adinparadise.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/big-stones-for-ailsas-travel-theme/
Stone really is everywhere, isn’t it? You have such wonderful pictures, Ailsa!
My contribution this week – http://newpillowbook.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/weekly-travel-stone-horizon/
awesome pictures Ailsa! here’s mine: http://lolawi.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/travel-theme-stone/
Good challenge! I had fun! Here’s my entry: http://the-sia-brat.com/2013/10/29/travel-theme-stone/
Wow, Ailsa, I want to see them all in person.
Here’s one I did see in person. I always wonder how they can perch on solidly on stones
Iike this.
More than Eye Candy
http://babsjeheron.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/more-than-eye-candy/
Great photos; and a really serendipitous theme for me. http://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/travel-theme-reading-the-stones/
Reblogged this on Bastet and Sekhmet's Library and commented:
This weeks Where’s my Backpack challenge is Stone!
Choosing photos and looking at those of others makes me want to do some traveling. 🙂 Here are my final choices: http://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/travel-theme-stone/.
janet
Wonderful shots, Ailsa. Especially Utah.
Just for fun…
http://firstandfabulous.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/travel-theme-stone/
One of these days I’ll get to Utah…beautiful!
Interesting challenge…I love gravestones so I like that interpretation…
Here’s my Stones!
http://tvortravels.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/travel-theme-stone/
Great selection of photos for this week’s theme!
Here’s my contribution, including stones with a hidden message and one not so hidden, stepping stones, and stones used as a background to display raindrops on spider webs.
http://milkapejovic.com/2013/10/29/travel-theme-stone/
Very nice pics! My contribution is totally different: http://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/travel-theme-stone/
Here are my stones, Ailsa – Old Stone of Much Wenlock – repurposing the Silurian Sea: http://wp.me/pKVAM-qO Thanks for the challenge.
I love this prompt, and took a bit of liberty with it, I hope you don’t mind: http://wp.me/p2owKx-uX
Cheers!
Good Morning! I was doing my morning reading, on my reader and one of the blogs that I follow did an excellent rock outcropping image that just caught the breath in my chest! I rarely do the theme type things, but the idea had me thinking of some images that I have taken and I decided to work one up and to include the muse. It is called Courting a Crevice.
More stones:
Beneath the Surface
http://babsjeheron.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/beneath-the-surface/
my entry- http://hemadamani.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/travel-theme-stone/
Here is my contribution
http://hamburgundmeehr.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/travel-theme-stone/
Better late than never!
http://quotidianhudsonriver.com/2013/10/30/10-30-13-travel-theme-stone/
Really late this week. Utah is such a naturally beautiful state. Love the stone arch. The first shot looks eerily like the location they chose for the first Star Wars movie. Here is my post for this week.
http://christopheryardin.com/2013/10/31/travel_theme-stone/
A few headstones: http://rainbowbakery.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/travel-theme-stone/
Hi Ailsa,
Thanks for another great challenge. Here is a link to “Stories Written in Stone”: http://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2012/09/
so, is stonehenge haunted? https://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/10/25/travel-theme-stone/
Stone post http://holley4734.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/travel-theme-stone/
some stone at some place I have,
http://tehicho.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/travel-theme-stone/
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