The Ring of Brodgar for #StandingStoneSunday.

We had the stones to ourselves as the sun slowly set, casting raking light across the stones. It's one of my favourite memories, it was so utterly beautiful and tranquil.

#BlackAndWhitePhotography #StandingStones #Orkneys #Scotland #NeolithicScotland #Neolithic #Orcadian

We don't often get to see individual people in prehistory, but these 3 #torcs were made or finished by same person, 2300 years ago!

Tiny punched tool marks look random, but this person has a very specific way of working & deco patterns that they use & we've now seen this on 3 torcs from very different places!

This means 3 torcs must have been made within 30-40 years of each other, within the lifetime of a single maker - a person that we now know by the way they decorated torcs.

#Archaeology

My grandson is a freshman in college and adjusting to dorm life. He's still growing and "always hungry". I found a collapsible silicone microwave popcorn popper, which of course I had to try out before giving it to him, then buy one of my own,

Since then, we've made multiple batches of popcorn and my husband came up with a recipe I think is fabulous.

Ingredients:
Popcorn kernels, 1/4 cup
Anchovies packed in olive oil, 2 oz tin finely minced
4 cloves of garlic, finely minced
1/4 of olive oil
1/4 of ghee (or unsalted butter)

Instructions:
Microwave the popcorn; set aside.

Sauté the garlic in olive oil.
Add the anchovies.
Add the ghee or butter.
Stir constantly until the ghee or butter is melted.

If you have an immersion blender, touch it to the mixture.

Pour the mixture over the popcorn, stir and thoroughly mix.

Enjoy. Share with friends, but don't tell them about the anchovies. (Unless they're vegans, then that would just be mean.)