Tiger lily. The thing I love most about being in/near the mountains, is that the seasons progress at different rates, depending on elevation. It's summer here at the house, but it's still spring in the mountains. Almost berry season!
Rumors abound of the Fandoana (Fandroana? Fandriana?)Bathing Festival in Madagascar, celebrated on this day, but I haven't been able to find any direct documentation of it.
In Britain, it's Emmeline Pankhurst Day.
It's also Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie's birthday.
And on this day in 1990, the small uninhabited island of Eynhallow in the Orkney Islands played host to 88 tourists. According to the ferry crew, only 86 returned. A thorough search by police, coastguards and helicopter failed to find the missing people. No, really. The island has long been regarded as a spooky 'vanishing isle', a sort of marine Brigadoon. Locals speculated the couple may have been mermen or mermaids, returning to their ancestral home; it is reportedly easy to mistake the Fin Folk for ordinary humans.
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