The Croppie wasn’t planning to post additional groundshots from the now farmer-defaced circle at Ludgershall, but sometimes photos and places can take on a deeper meaning.
It wasn’t a pleasant visit out to the edge of the Salisbury Plain military training area. It was hot and being extermely allergic to barley I was wrapped up in waterproofs, goggles, gloves and a mask. Wielding a camera I must have looked rather disturbing. It probably explains why the intrigued croppie I ran into didn’t stick around.
Black military helicopters seem to take great interest in the circle, coming in low and hovering over the formation. Weirdly, none of my photos of the helicopters came out. They were unrecoverable and corrupted.
Perhaps by coincidence an RAF transport plane also circled around, making the ground shake. Had I been looking for some peace I would have been out of luck.
Fifteen minutes was all I could manage inside the formation before the heat and my allergy became too much. I can never enjoy such a visit. It doesn’t matter that I love crop circles, I just cannot hang around in a field of barley.
Perhaps it’s fitting that the farmer chose to deface this silent, neat and inoffensive crop circles. Like so much else in the world its existence proved to be ephemeral. It is now another ghost of this most spectral of phenomena.
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The Two Ronnies had a great “Mastermind” sketch about answering the question before last. A little like this wordpress gig. The subject of conversation is out of sync with the images on the post. Nothing wrong with the images above. They are very nice. But you know, not the latest.
The latest being a lot of fun.
In horse racing, the starting price (SP) is the odds prevailing on a particular horse in the on-course fixed-odds betting market at the time a race begins.
With a close associate I had a fiver on the SP being mistaken for JR (you can guess why) but the prevailing winds went for JP. I love a circle like that.
Saul Bass might have been proud. Nice logotype with a super classic reference behind – the Nautilus seashell (interior). Super, super classic reference to the logarithmic spiral, Fibonacci squares. Beautiful. Embedded in that circle is a signature referring back to all the best classic formations, no matter that it’s ultimate function was simply to displace Lorde’s underside on her website.
And the faithful assumed it was a space croissant. Still do.
Sigh.
Hi – just seen this post. I’m the “intrigued croppie” you ran into. Been reading a lot of this site while camping in the area – how interesting to meet a contributor at the first one I visit.
I’m curious to know what the farmer did to deface the crop circle. Was it just harvested or deliberately ruined? Also why do you think your shots of the helicopters didn’t come out?
I’m pretty new to this subject but finding it fascinating. I think I said to you the more I read about it the weirder it seems…
Thanks for visiting and for your kind words. It wasn’t me you met, but I’ve addressed that in an email to you, together with the helicopter stuff. 🙂
Farmers who don’t want visitors into their fields will harvest the area of the crop circle early. Apparently the grain will still be usable once dried off, but don’t quote me on that.
Yeah actually I just realised the pictured woman, who I met, didn’t write this post as she isn’t dressed up in the gear mentioned. I guess she is the intrigued croppie then and she met you after me… Late night, slow brain. Thought it a nice synchronicity linked to first crop circle but never mind. Still is I suppose!
Keep up the good work.
It wasn’t me you met either, which makes me wonder if someone else at the circle suffers from a barley allergy!
Totally wasn’t me.Although I needed a lot of Clarityn too. I was in the Black Zafira parked in the gateway by the kink with my BFFs because a droner had parked up in the other one in a Mitsubishi. That circle had not much longer for the world at the time and there was only one other punter in it, flying around, this way and that. None of that matters, but you should know that the person in the photo above is giving you the V sign. Cheeky of them.
This cc was made for me.
It’s a symbol of the makers Love for me