A "Newgrange" midday shaft of light on Winter Solstice
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Saturday, December 04, 2021
GALWAY WANDERINGS 4TH DECEMBER 2021
The last two gates from 1850s Regulation Weir still working
Site of Medieval Galway's Little Gate that led to St Stephen's Island.
Druid Lane aka Earl's Lane aka Courthouse Lane
Always something slightly sinister about carousel horses' grins
Saturday, November 06, 2021
Autumn Colours and Shadows Galway Bay 5th November 2021
The Briny Shore
Midday Shadows at Blackrock
Big Skies south over Mutton Island in Galway Bay
Thursday, August 26, 2021
LATE AUGUST HEDGEROW and EXISTENTIAL FRUIT
The hedgerow on the road beside our house is beginning to express itself in its existential fruit. Photographs taken this evening. The bramble and the red haws of the hawthorn or whitethorn bush and the deep violet-black of the sloes of the tangled blackthorn.
The hawthorn sloe and bramble blackberry
The Haws of Hawthorn and Bramble fruit.
Monday, July 19, 2021
CONNEMARA REFLECTIONS
LOUGH INAGH
Emerald Moth
SUNSET INAGH VALLEY
THE PILGRIMS' ROAD TO MÁM ÉAN ( Maumeen) FROM INAGH
THROUGH THE MAMTURK MOUNTAINS.
[Mám Éan - The Pass of the Birds]
KYLEMORE LAKE
LOOKING TOWARDS MOUTH OF KILLARY HARBOUR
Monday, July 05, 2021
THE CLINTS OF ÁRAINN (Inishmore - Aran Islands, Galway)
The wet slabs of limestone (clints) that make up much of the karst of the Aran Islands give the appearance of bog pools or lakes with boulders and walls "floating" across their surface.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
GALWAY TOWN and COUNTY OF THE TOWN MEANDERINGS 17th June 2021
Joe Lee Climate Change installation in Fisheries Field, Galway
The yellow (bog) Iris (feileastram)
Bog-Cotton (ceannbhán or whitehead)
Heron's Rest
A river of Salmon (Abhainn bhrádánach)
The 1850 (two gates left) and 1950 Salmon Weir.
The Salmon pass is in the middle.
Move over! There were a tremendous number of bumble bees
feeding on the tufted vetch.
Monday, June 14, 2021
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