Spring

The word dandelion is a corruption of the French phrase “dent de lion,” which means “lion’s tooth” and refers to the plant’s coarse-toothed leaves. According to a Greek myth, Zeus thought he had given all the plants are name, whereupon a small blue flower shouted “forget me not!”. The supreme god decided to make life easy for himself by giving the plant that name.

All, including mother, appear to be sleeping

One from the archives Hackness is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of the county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies within the North York Moors National Park, and is situated at the foot of two moorland valleys, Lowdale and Highdale. The parish population rose from 125 in the 2001 UK census to 221 in the 2011 UK census. Hackness is mentioned as the site of a double monastery or nunnery by *Bede, writing in the early 8th century. The present Church of Saint Peter is a Grade I listed building, parts of which date from the 11th century. There have been two monastic foundations at Hackness, first an Anglo-Saxon nunnery founded in 680 and second a cell of Whitby Abbey that was used as a refuge when pirates forced the monks away from the coast. The original establishment was a nunnery founded by **St. Hild or Hilda of Whitby in 680, the year of her death. According to legend the bells of Hackness tolled at the moment St. Hild died fourteen miles away in Whitby. Hackness Hall and its landscape gardens were created in the 1790s. The house, a Grade I listed building, was commissioned by Sir Richard Van den Bempde-Johnstone, who had inherited the estate through his mother. *Bede (672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable, was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England). **Hild (614 - 17 November 680) is a significant figure in the history of English Christianity. As the abbess of Whitby – a monastery for both men and women – she led one of the most important religious centres in the Anglo-Saxon world. In 664 Hild’s monastery hosted the Synod of Whitby, which set the course for the future of Christianity in England. A lot of history for a small village

Basking in spring sunshine on the cliff edge (184 m, 604 ft). Ravenscar North Yorkshire.

Distance - approximately 4.2km

Derwent Mill is a water mill that utilised the waters of the nearby River Derwent for the production of flour from corn.

Low Mill Weir on the River Derwent, which forms the border between the villages of East and West Ayton, North Yorkshire.

The woodland in Forge Valley, and many other valleys in this area, are carpeted with wild garlic in the spring. The crop this year seems to be more abundant than ever, perhaps due to all the rain we have had over the past few months. The picture shows only a very small part of the carpet. Beyond the fallen tree the gill becomes much more narrow, and deeper, with steep slopes ending in vertical rock walls of about 3 to 4 meters height. A footpath descends from the high ground at the top of the gill, allowing easy access from my home to this part of Forge Valley. (see PiP) **The Yorkshire dialect word Gill or ghyll, from the Old Norse, means small narrow valley or ravine. **Reference: www.viking.no/e/england/yorkshire_norse.htm

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