This post will be linked coming Monday to Jez’ Water, Water Everywhere Challenge. Surging: The Andernach geyser is the highest cold-water geyser in the world, reaching between 30 and 60 metres. A cold-water geyser surges up similar to a hot-water geyser, except that CO2-bubbles drive the eruptions … Continue reading Water, Water Everywhere in June
Patterned columns and chimneys (basically hollow columns) – from oldest to newest. Solid stone columns were patterned by Romans and later. Around the turn of the 19th century they used bricks and often patterned structures either plastically or by using different coloured bricks. Slate are thin plates and pattern are achieved by overlapping the pieces.
We had a wonderful run of nothing but blue skies for quite a long stretch. I have been less than diligent watering my garden and the gras has turned brown in patches because I was out on playgrounds and the like – admiring the blue skies and the pink t-shirts in front!
A relentlessly hot sun was beating down on the desert sand which had been bleached almost to a skeleton white. No living thing could survive here – or so it seemed. And then a movement – a bright red gianormous saurian lumbered through the white sands. In its mouth it carried a naked woman …
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Each year on Ascension Day about 2500 members of student fraternities are descending on our hometown. They wear their traditional uniforms and are practicing other traditions (like finding out how much beer they can hold). The new members are tenderfooting it – they still have to learn a lot (like how to walk after having taking in the maximum amount of beer).
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