In September 2002, I took a week-long road trip through Scotland with two friends. We drove from Cranfield (a small town in England) through Edinburgh, St. Andrews, past Loch Ness, and to the very northern tip of Britain. There, we took a ferry to the Orkney Islands. The weather, which had been gray and drizzly on the mainland, cleared and gave us bright and sunny skies. We rented bikes and rode a large loop around the island to visit prehistoric sites.

This is the Ring of Brodgar, a group of standing stones erected sometime between 3000 BC and 2000 BC. It was probably part of a prehistoric ritual complex, but was eventually abandoned or forgotten. Eventually it was rediscovered, and first recorded in the 1500s.

(I thought it appropriate for this week's Photo Friday topic -- abandoned.)

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