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| ‘Here is my stone-ribbed nest…’ St. David’s Cathedral, 6th March 2024. |
[…] I am David.I am the Dovebearer.I speak of peace.I counsel joy.In a fold of the furthest west,Here is my stone-ribbed nest.I am David.Under my feetThe rock of DyfedHas raised me upTo tower in time’s March gales.I am David. I am Wales.Raymond Garlick (1926–2011)
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus — Happy St. David’s Day — to all who have reason to celebrate!
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| Sunset over Cardigan Bay, seen from Aberystwyth sea-front, 8th October, 2023. “Machlud tawel, halen yn yr awel” (“Silent sunset, sea salt in the air”), wrote local schoolboy Gwenno Haf Thomas in 2012, aged fourteen; his words were set down in lettering on the Promenade. |
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St. David’s Day to one and all.
… The same sea breaks
on the same shore and is not
broken. The stone in Llŷn
is still there, honey-
coloured for a girl’s hair
to resemble …— R.S. Thomas, from Pen Llŷn (Mass for Hard Times, 1992)
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| An eastward view from cliffs near Porth Meudwy on the Llŷn peninsula, Gwynedd, 29th March 2022; Ynysoedd Gwylan-fawr and -fach (Big and Little Seagull Islands) are to the right. |
To all born in Wales, who live there, or who wish it well, Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant: happy St. David’s Day!
These were his last words: “Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed. Do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about.”
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| Aberystwyth daffodils, March 2016 |
Wishing a very happy feast of St. David to all readers!
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| Looking across the valley of the Grwyne Fawr, and Monmouthshire’s border with Powys, to Patrishow. |
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| The Black Mountains from near Llanbedr, Monmouthshire. Easter Sunday, 2019. |
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| 4th March, 2016: Aberystwyth and Cardigan Bay in several moods at once, as usual! |
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| Aberystwyth, St. David’s Day, 2016 |
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| Parêd Gŵyl Dewi Sant, Aberystwyth, 5 Mawrth 2016 |
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| ‘Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales…’ |
