The day dawn is breaking and I don't need to go out hiking in the cold again. So I'll try to catch up a little.
Two days ago, the first day of Spring, started out so beautiful! I walked up to the "main" road to scout out the snow. I wasn't going to get out any time early. I waited until 11 a.m. and all was sufficiently melted.
But the views!
The Usk Valley curves from the left to the right. The far valley is the Rhiangoll or Cwmdu and I think the peak in the distance, right, is Twmpa above Blaendigeddi Fawr. |
The Bunkhouse farm is down in the trees |
And I crossed the Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal where there is a canal boat harbor!
The Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal between Crickhowell and Gilwern |
I drove down to Llanfoist and found that the daffodils I planted had survived the blizzard just fine.
The yellow flowers are bursting out all over Wales at present. Up here on the mountain, they are just starting. As I go lower in the Valleys, they are ever more present. And down by Cardiff, they are everywhere.
Oh, did I mention Cardiff? I wasn't planning on that direction until today (I should have lots of pics of daffs.) At Llanfoist, I wanted to go up to Garnddyrys on the side of the Blorenge. But the road between Llanfoist and Govilon was closed due to contstruction on the powerlines. I headed around the other side of the mountain to see Pontypool and Abersychan. Stopping for lunch at a chip shop in Goytre (a name that will live in infamy), I went into the free car park. It has a loo and everything. It also had the weirdest posts to narrow down the traffice to less than one lane for some odd reason. Well, turning in, I hung up my rear, left "tyre" on the post. It was only a minor scrape to the car, so I didn't worry to much.
Pontypool from the Tesco upper deck. |
All in all, I would like to offer this up to Tesco and its loo:
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