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Nothing has dried out this year.These pools are cracked baked peat by now.Yet the moors and valley this year need hanging on the line for a day or two to drip dry.Rain on my horizon drifted by over monotone moorlands but some blue somewhere fell into my pool.I sat in a swarm of midges until it faded back to grey.

MGM Pool by vegasstek

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pool by Francis Mansell

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In the marshy peninsula between Loch Doine and Loch Voil in the Balquhidder glen.

Capitol Reflecting Pool by Jeff Warta

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Tried a different perspective for this shot of the Washington Monument from the Capitol Reflecting Pool.

pool timee by Nirvana Ling Tajiri

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Pool of Tranquility by n55ffc

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Pool by Julia Marie Rønneberg

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Coastal Pool by Rckr88

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Tsitsikamma National Park - Eastern Cape, South Africa

pool with fish by Uncle Kick-Kick

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Buttermilk Falls State Park, Ithaca, New York

Pool Hotel Ariana, Kiten, Bulgaria by Smena-2

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swimming pool # 12 by michel nguie

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escapism

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Mimmo by Cortess

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Visit this location in Second Life

Pool Party by Paul Boudreau

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Cobbled together for Vivid Art's **Vivid People Challenge!**.

Detailed viewing with the magnifier is kind of cool, or if so inclined, HERE is a larger size.

.Pool Party. by Red - FatallyStylish / Thrust Poses

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Rexi by Rodrigo Carabajal

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Pool of Rock by scotty-70

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pool-reflection by Werner Boehm

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my vacations

in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt

Clothed Pool Plunge by Cestrius Signius

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Crazywell Pool by Rich Walker

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Crazywell Pool on Dartmoor is surrounded by superstition. It was thought that it was bottomless and that the water level rose and fell with the tides at Plymouth. This was believed to have been confirmed when the parishioners of nearby Walkhampton brought up the bell ropes from the parish church to test its depth. They tied the ropes together, weighted the end and lowered them into the water, but were unable to reach the bottom of the pool.

Another superstition is that, during the middle-ages, the pool was haunted by the Witch of Sheepstor who used to give her clients a lot of bad advice. One such instance was Piers Galveston who was a favourite of Edward II. She advised him to return to the Court at Warwick where ‘his humbled head shall soon be high’. Taking her advice, he returned to Warwick and was promptly executed. There was, however, some truth in the prophecy in that his severed head was set up on the battlements of the castle.

Other superstitions include the waters calling out at dusk the name of the next Walkhampton parishioner to die. Also, that at midnight on Midsummer’s Eve you can see the face of the next parishioner to die in the still waters of the pool.

In reality the pool was excavated by tinners and may well have been used by them as a reservoir. Certainly it is fine spot to sit awhile and ponder during a walk on a fine summer’s day.

In the distance to the right you can see Leather Tor and Sharpitor.

Pool Hall Flag by Miles

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Pool Day by Faeryn Saligia

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Enjoying a little relaxation by the pool with my hubby before our day really begins!

Pool Side by Thomas Hawk

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toremont by _Alexei

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Kodak Ektar 100

8 min. exposure