Spirit photos?

I'm still figuring out this portal thing, it's pretty cool! And I've been enjoying reading everyone's profiles - what a great and interesting bunch of folks! One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to ask to be on peoples' friends list...so for those who have asked to be on mine - now you know why I haven't reciprocated.

Penny's post on Orbs reminded me of these photos I took last August while hiking at a nearby nature preserve that has many curious features suggesting that this was once an ancient, ceremonial landscape of some kind. This part of San Diego County has many magnificent standing stones. Some are over thirty feet high, and there are far too many of them to be natural features. I was photographing a large, C-shaped bare spot which is easy to spot from the air but hard to find on the ground. It is about 200' in diameter, and the way it is cut into the hilltop shows that it is manmade. I can't say if it's ancient although I believe it is. The open end of the C is shored up by a wall made of stacked stones that is so old, it's buried in brush and almost indistinguishable from the surrounding ground. Exploring this mysterious area and its meaning is one of my main passions. It seems that no one has ever noticed these ancient monuments.

These photos were taken about 7am and facing west. In other words the sun was at my back and there is no possibility of lens flare. They were taken with an Olympus digital camera. In the two photos I'm attaching here, you can see a ball of mist move upwards from left to right. There is a third photo that simply shows the mist continuing to move and dissipate. I did not see anything when I shot the photos. I've shown these to dozens of people, and the almost universal response is "spirit photos." I'm open to another explanation, if anyone can come up with one.

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