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Cool School Challenge, held on Feb. 3, where Students and teachers took an icy dip in the Atlantic as part of the Polar Plunge® Fest in Virginia Beach
Photography by Craig McClure
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Too hot for anything but walking on the beach on a cool night but the clouds were like it was stormy
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St Andrew State Park - Panama City Beach, Florida. The weather was cool -the seas were calm
Calochortus clavatus var. pallidus, north slopes of La Panza Range, San Luis Obispo Co., CA, 5 May 2017.
Note the obviously mutant flower. The mutant plant has both doubled (six) petals AND the very cool doubled and apparently conjoined stigma lobes. Interestingly, the stamens appear to be normal.
St Dyfnog’s Well is located at Llanrhaeadr, Denbighshire. The well, which isn’t signposted, is accessed from the church. A path running up the left hand side of the church follows a stream through the woods. The well is about 200 yards up from the church.
The village of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch takes its name from the spring on the hillside which is now known as St Dyfnog’s Well. Llan=church and rhaeadr=waterfall.
According to tradition St. Dyfnog lived at the site of the well spring named after him in the 6th century, doing penance by standing under the torrent in his hair shirt belted with an iron chain. The festival of St Dyfnog is 13th February.
The well became known for its healing powers By the late middle ages this spring was among the most renowned Welsh holy wells, attracting numerous pilgrims and bardic poems in its praise. The strength of the spring was a notable feature. In the 16th century Leland noted “a mighty spring that maketh a brook running scant a mile”
Lhuyd (1698) records “a bath, much frequented, the water heals scabs, itches etc, some say that it would cure the pox.”
By the early 18th century it had developed such that Browne Willis refers to “the famous well of St Dyfnog, much resorted to, and on that account provided with all convenience of rooms etc, for bathing, built around it.”
Towards the end of that century Pennant visits, reporting that “the fountain was enclosed in an angular wall, decorated with small human figures, and before the well for pious bathers".
During the middle ages the well generated considerable wealth for the area, and the creation of the sixteenth century Jesse Window in the church was supposedly financed by revenue from the well, although there is an alternative tradition that it was relocated from Basingwerk Abbey following its dissolution.
The site’s proximity to St Winefride’s Well at Holywell was advantageous, since St Dyfnog’s was frequently included in the itinerary for pilgrimages to St Winefride’s.’
The buildings, including the reported marble linings to the pool, and statues have now disappeared, leaving just the stone lined remains of the bathing pool. Remaining too, however, is evidence of the landscaped woodland path created to the site in the nineteenth century including a number of small stone bridges which cross the stream that descends from the well.
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Originally taken and posted for the GWUK group.
Guessed by LookaroundAnne
even tough it was 1992 the train from Hangzhou to Chengdu took 3 days, maybe it was a slow train.
It was unbearebly hot, the thermometer inside the train reached 40 degrees celsius but the worst part was that the blocked the windows so the could not be opened. Loud the propaganda from the loudspeakers shouted out the same slogans a hundred times. It was hard to breath, hard to find a moment of rest. Outside people were enjoying the coolnes of the rivers and the stillness of nature.
Inside the train we were trapped like rats in a cage slowly barbecued.
After a while the cookies are placed on a rack to cool and set.
They improve from being stored in a tin overnight.