Variations on a theme

Morning all!

And with that, Spring is over (not in a literal sense, obviously...) and we move on to pastures new.

This week's theme is

Broken things

Now just to tidy things up before we start, this is about actual things, not abstract concepts like promises...

Also, we're closing in on doing this for a year now (yeah, I know, me neither...) so if we're not already, let's try to up our game a bit. Let's make our pictures visually interesting (or at the very least, not lazy and uninspired like a couple of the spring pics were - you know who you are 😉)

Have a smashing time! (see what I did there?)
 
Broken things

Off the coast of Sweden are two islands called Gotland and Öland. They have some of the oldest ruins in Scandinavia, including Gråborg (Grey Fort) which is estimated to have been built in the 6th century, and many more from between the years 600-1100. In the city of Visby on Gotland there's a house called Cramérska Huset, which is the oldest still lived in house in Sweden, constructed in the year 1230.

Well, what I'm trying to say is, there's some real history out there on those islands. Their remoteness didn't let people easily dismantle all these old stone buildings, like what happened to say Stonehenge, so they're still around.

Here is a piece of wall dated around the year 1200.
Broken, but still standing.

https://i.ibb.co/0Kt7NVF/borg.jpg
(edit: date corrections)
 
Broken things

Off the coast of Sweden are two islands called Gotland and Öland. They have some of the oldest ruins in Scandinavia, including Gråborg (Grey Fort) which is estimated to have been built in the 6th century, and many more from between the years 600-1100. In the city of Visby on Gotland there's a house called Cramérska Huset, which is the oldest still lived in house in Sweden, constructed in the year 1230.

Well, what I'm trying to say is, there's some real history out there on those islands. Their remoteness didn't let people easily dismantle all these old stone buildings, like what happened to say Stonehenge, so they're still around.

Here is a piece of wall dated around the year 1200.
Broken, but still standing.
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(edit: date corrections)
Really wanna go to Sweden.
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Ruins of the docking area that was built by the lost settlers of Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. It's an eerie site, knowing that all of the people of the Roanoke settlement allegedly disappeared.
I want to go there. It isn't too awful far from me. 8 1/2 hour drive roughly.
 
I dropped this wooden piece my papa made and it broke perfectly in half.
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This is going to be a fun week because I love broken things.
I am sorry that broke, love. I have a few things that I treasure that I have broken as well, and that feeling --fear, loss, regret, at least for me-- is palpable. I hate that.

But I have learned there is beauty in the broken as well. That is an evocative and beautiful shot. Thank you for sharing.
 
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