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Jongmyo Shrine was built by Lee Seong Gye or King Taejo (1335-1408), the first king and founding father of the Joseon Dynasty. It was a primary place of worship for kings throughout the Joseon Dynasty and has been registered as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.
The royal shrine houses the tablets of the Joseon Kynasty kings and queens, and is the venue of yearly ritual ceremonies, now held annually the first Sunday of May.
Japanese invaders burt down original structues in 1592, but rebuilt in 1608.
I wondered why the ponds here never had any fish an lacked the lush floral displays found at nearby palaces. Apparently in deference to departed souls, such amenities were not originally introduced. However, as seen here, there are a few modern exception to ancient sensitivities.
In the background is "Mangmyoru", used as an office and sometime meditation spot for the deceased. The name means: the king thinks about the achievement of previous kings, and the policies which would benefit his people...".
The place has undergone changes over the past decade. Once, people filled the area on a fine Spring day. Now, one has to take a guided tour. At the end of the excursion, we tried to sit where senior citizens once lingered. A tender came over and told us we were not allowed to sit in the benches beside the pond, not more than 20 meters from this picture. The pendulum of human foibles swings - from exclusive royal haunt, to plebian respite, back towards a more restful venue for the departed.
King's rest stop, 2012.
Entire Jongmyo set at: www.flickr.com/photos/karl_wolfgang/sets/7215762652339293...
Official UNESCO writeup at:
Caveat: pictures are kind of lame, not to Flikr standards:) However, the historical content is good.
This brightly colored Bullock’s oriole spreads its wings for the camera! Cerro Alto Campground, Atascadero, CA
the paper studio with its equipment, raw material, gathered papers is filling up, too fast... spring cleaning was needed, and we organized our 'pitot' = 'fiber loafs' in a better and visible way: above Japanese Mulberry/Kozo, below Jeans cotton -- they have been prepared at least 15 years back and can be used any time needed: first step is soaking them in water over night, and then 're-opening' their fibers in the hollander=pulp making machine... handmade paper from plants or natural textiles needed, anybody?! :)
With winter's footprints in the past,
and snows begin to melt at last,
with longer days and shorter nights,
the wayward winds of March take flight,
four winds she holds within her grip,
then hurls them from her fingertip,
her wooly, fleecy clouds of white,
she sets in skies of blue delight,
her wild bouts of gusty breeze,
roars through valleys, hills and trees,
that high pitch whistling song she sings,
awakens earth and flowering things,
she tears a hole in heavens sky,
so sun can shine and rain can cry,
she gently calms as spring draws near,
as blooming daffodils appear,
she welcomes April showers in,
then gathers up her dwindling winds,
now her long journey home begins,
knowing she'll be back this way,
upon a cold late winter's day,
when nights grow short,
and days grow long,
Listen for her whistling song!
Poem "Song of March" by Patricia L. Cisco
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This is the Spring creek stream in Marlborough New Zealand, Its a very good trout fishing stream with many large fish some in double figures, I have caught the odd onehere on the fly rod,Many fishermen catch more trees here than fish, If it was a easy stream to fish then there wouldn't be the big trout here aye.
Japanese Quince blooming in early January. We normally don't see this until March but apparently, we are living in a new normal. Thanks for the look and have a great evening.
Gnome Spring lies in the backwoods of Leon County. This area is very spring-rich, with portals to the aquifer abounding everywhere. Nevertheless there are surprisingly few developed for swimming other than Wakulla Springs.
~ Waiting for the Spring ~
I am afraid that something strange happen
and it will not come never again
Can we change the season with our good willings, or hates
or with our care we can please it....
or stay careless and wait for Sumer ...
??????
Those thoughts come to my mind as reflections on big changes in nature and
us - people. Do we become senseless, cruel, coldhearted???
An extra empty coal train rips through Elma, NY just outside of Buffalo as a spring snow storm takes over the area.
1. Sunshine Flower, 2. Pink Spring, 3. Pink Dreamer, 4. Sunny Tulips
Blogged: Happy Spring Flowers
This photo shows pools in the stream of water that come from Providence Spring. The story of the spring is one of the most inspiring stories to come from Andersonville. In late February 1864, Union prisoners began arriving at the Confederate prisoner of war camp, Camp Sumter, located in Andersonville, Georgia. By June the prison population numbered over 20,000. The Confederate jailers decided that a larger prison was needed and started in the middle of June to enlarge the prison. The walls were that originally encompassed 10 acres were expanded to include 26.5 acres over the period of 14 days. Prisoners did the work. The prison designed to hold around 10,000 POWs held 33,000 by August.
The Stockade Branch of Sweetwater Creek was the source of drinking water as well as all water used by the prisoners. With the overcrowding it soon became polluted by human wastes and other pollutants. As a result Diarrhea and dysentery spread throughout the camp. These conditions along with other diseases and malnutrition resulted in a high mortality rate.
Prayers were offered through out the camp by those who were suffering, According to eyewitness accounts passed down to relatives and written in journals, a group of prisoners decided they would pray to God for pure water and would not stop until their prayers were answered. The group prayed for hours. The result was what many men that were there saw as a miracle and a direct answer to prayer. On August 16,1864 witnesses report a deafening noise like thunder or an earthquake that shook the earth, At a spot where some of the men were kneeling, a freshwater spring burst out of the ground. Considering this phenomenon a providential act of God that was a direct answer to prayer, both prisoner and jailer called the spring and stream Providence Spring.
Some say it was a spring that had been buried during construction of the prison, others hold it was a new spring but regardless it was in the minds of many a direct answer to earnest prayer. Consider the testimony of S.E. Lookingbill of Company C 6th Maryland Vol., Inf., 2nd Brigade 3 Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, who was a eyewitness to the miracle: "There has been a great deal written about Providence Spring and what caused the water to come out of the earth at this place. I will state that I was there at the time God gave this spring to us, and this spring came through prayer for water.
The water furnished the stockade by the branch became so unfit from the filth on the outside and from the cook house and stables that there was a general cry for water from all over the camp and God heard the cries of his people and gave them Providence Spring. The Confederates at the time, and even to this day, call this Providence Spring, and say that God answered the soldiers' prayer for water."
The sudden appearance of the spring at the western wall of the stockade in the summer of 1864 was a treasured and sacred memory of many Union survivors of the prison. By the 1880s, visiting the site of the spring was an important Memorial Day tradition. Following the initial preservation of the prison site in the 1890s by the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman's Relief Corps arranged for the Spring House to cover the site of the spring. The Providence Spring House was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1901.
These are some of the inscriptions on the walls of The Spring House : "The Prisoners' cry of thirst rang up to Heaven; God heard, and with His thunder cleft the earth and poured his sweet water came rushing here." "God smote the hillside and gave them drink, August 16, 1864. These inscriptions reveal how the inmates felt about the spring and why it was such an important place to them even after the war.