#st. david

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The Daves I Know

And now, let us sing the traditional St. David’s Day carol.

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Happy St. David's Day! Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!'

‘Do the little things in life' ('Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd') .. St. David .. c. 500 – 1.iii.589 ..

Late 19th-century window, Jesus College, Oxford.

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White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica), Saint David, Cochise County, Arizona.

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The hauntingly beautiful Welsh song Myfanwy 'is in the air in Wales' according to singer Cerys Matthews. She along with others discuss what the melodic tale of unrequited love means to them. They include a Welsh woman living in Sicily for whom the song represents 'hiraeth', a longing or homesickness for Wales and another who believes it expresses the 'wounded soul of the Welsh'. A man remembers how his late brother and he used to sing it in pubs in North Wales and how the song symbolises the unrequited love he felt for him. Members of the Ynysowen choir, started after the mining disaster in Aberfan as a way of dealing with the emotion, talk about the song's power, and an ex soldier recalls digging for survivors with lines from it playing in his head "Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy".

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The cottonwoods here are putting on a dramatic late-fall display of color. These mighty trees are at the Holy Trinity Monastery in St. David, Arizona, only a short walk from the dense cottonwood galleries on the banks of the San Pedro River.

The tree on the right is the biggest cottonwood I've ever seen. I estimate its diameter at breast hight at about 9 feet, or 2.5 meters. Because of its multiple trunks I think it might have grown from several individuals that conjoined at some point through a process called inosculation – proof that you never know where a kiss might lead.

Frémont's cottonwood (Populus fremontii) at Holy Trinity Monastery, St. David, Arizona.

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Fremont’s cottonwood (Populus fremontii) at Holy Trinity Monastery, St. David, Arizona. 

I did a crude measurement with my outstretched arms and estimate that this mighty tree’s trunk is about 36 feet in circumference (11 m) at breast height. 

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