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It was so hot last week that I got an old plastic wading pool out for the dogs. They ignored it but the water stayed there. A few days later we were moving the scaffolding to a new spot and I didn't want the flowers that were in the way to be wasted so I cut a large number of them and plopped them in the wading pool until our work was done. Then I forgot they were there. Today I took them out, threw them in the woods and started to dump the water. And then I looked at it. The sun was shining. The flowers were yellow, the pool was purple, the leaves were green. The opportunity was accidental. Wish my skills were better....
Memorial Pool is a small, and somewhat secluded reflection pool which sits along the edge of memorial glade with views of both the campanile and a little bit of Doe Library. It's surrounded by trees which makes it nice and quiet and an excellent study spot when the weather is warm!
Thanks for looking! I appreciate any comments or feedback.
-Michael
I'm glad Dad got your camera, otherwise I wouldn't be responsible for the consequences... You know I'm the life guard around and you're not supposed to be alone here!
Ainda bem que o papai pegou a sua câmera; eu não seria responsável pelas consequências... Você sabe muito bem que sou o salva-vidas daqui e você não deveria estar sozinha aí dentro!
The Pool of Bethesda was located on the eastern side of the city near the Fortress of Antonia. The name Bethesda means "house of mercy."
The water source was a nearby spring. The Pool had five porches and according to the Bible there was a tradition that an angel moved the waters at certain times and healed the sick. It was here at the Pool of Bethesda that Jesus healed the man who was lame for thirty-eight years. Recent archaeological discoveries have again confirmed the Biblical account, that there were five porches and the fifth one divided the rectangular pool into two separate compartments. Josephus wrote about the Pool of the Sheep-market.
Archaeological remains of Herod's Jerusalem are scarce. The Romans did a thorough work of destroying everything. We know about Herod and his buildings through the writings of Josephus, Strabo, Dio Cassius, Jewish Literature, archaeology and the Bible.
The Roman Legions of Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. They spared only Herod's powerful tower fortress as a symbol of the strength of the Romans who were able to overpower it.
"After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked"
- John 5:1-9
(description taken from www.bible-history.com/sketches/ancient/pool-bethesda.html)
Met up with JA and Tara at Whale Beach this morning. A little bit of cloud appeared for us today. It was a lovely still morning, so the pool reflection was perfect, and obviously too cold as there were ne swimmers!
If you really focus, you can almost smell the chlorine. Seriously, the chlorine smell was so incredibly strong at this pool. Burned my sinuses. I lived on Maui with that glorious tropical turquoise ocean; you couldn't get me into this pool for $100. OK, maybe $110, but who would offer that?
Surprise Pool, Great Fountain Group, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Hotspot, northwestern Wyoming, USA in August 2011 (looking ~NNW).
Above: This overflowing hot spring has an intense blackish-blue to blackish-green color. Vigorous boiling occurs along portions of the pool border and sometimes near the center. Surprise Pool does not have geyser eruptions.
Below: Surprise Pool’s drainage channel heads ~WSW and is bordered by irregularly wavy geyserite crusts. The deep yellowish and orangish-brown colored areas have extremophile bacterial mats.