Dark satanic mills ...

Well you had to get your astronaut training somewhere realistic.

lol, think the went to Iceland for some of that.

When I first re-found this photo, I had to look close to make sure it wasn't a model village layout or somthing; couldn't believe I'd got so much in one shot. There was a model village at Land's End, but that was a mine and village set-up. This has to be lift-size, real-life. gosh.

Hi Fran ..Lovely landscape.

thanks, TT - I never plan photos, or very rarely, and never think of a wider audience for them than myself and the people I was with - think we've ll had the experience of being mugged by other people's holiday photos! But now and then I do seem to take one that's not blurred, out of focus or of me own hand!

Interesting you should mention about holiday photos.... When younger, I was taught very strictly, to NOT bore anyone with lots of holiday pics, etc... Lol...

... and I find the stern instruction has stayed with me, in that I'm hesitant about adding too many pics to GoY at one time !

Know what you mean, TT! well-taken pictures of something interesting are one thing; slightly blurred pictures of someone they met there or their hotel or them on the beach or by the pool ... and it got even worse when home movies came in! and then vids, and camcoorders.

I've seen pictures on Webshots, PhotoBucket, and lots more places - people *will* insist on posting photos with themselves interrupting an otherwise interesting view. I mean, who but them is interested in seeing their stupid faces grinning at the camera and blocking the view???

But sure you've been to lots of interestng places, TT, and no one would have to worry about photo quality with you behind the camera! smiles, dip a toe and see how it goes!

Why "Dark Satanic Mill"?

from William Blake's "Jeruslam" --

And did those feet in ancient time.
Walk upon England's mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England's pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Can't believe I had to look that up! Sing along to the Last Night of the Proms, thought I knew the words (till a moment ago!)

It reminds me more Wuthering Heights from E. Bronte. I got her book at seventeen and read it several times. It was my most favourite novel from teenages. I remember I cried a lot over Heathcliff.

I never got around to reading Bronte, or Austen, or any of the others (what DID I waste my time on?!)

Yorkshire had its mines, too, though I'd imagine that coal mines might have been spread out a bit more than the Cornish tin mines; but I'd think that closed-down and neglected mills and mill buildings, would look much the same wherever you went.