AFTER THE STORM

 1st October 2023 – Today was a day in the west of Ireland when overnight with the passing of an Atlantic storm the light went from opaque to absolute clarity, the atmosphere from cold to warmth, the landscape from battered to proud, the will from quiet resignation to exuberance.

WINDBLOWN

Roundstone - Cloch na Rón or Seal's Rock

Stairway to the Hag

see: http://deworde.blogspot.com/2016/03/rihla-journey-57-quays-to-connemara.html

Girl and Wave

Ancient boundary

Huge Hare ....  briefly!

No "end" in sight!

Sand Lines

MUSHROOM TREES: BARNA WOODS, GALWAY; AUGUST 2023

 

MAY WANDERINGS

 

The avenue towards the old Quadrangle of newly rebranded University of Galway 

( from NUIG – National University of Ireland Galway)

Salmon Cast

Dublin at Dusk

Fishing at Galway Salmon weir

Fishing at Galway Salmon weir.

Heron flight

Puddles

Ghosts of Spring

Ribwort Plantain hues.

Seashore frolics

Glades 1

Glades 2

The bog Iris this year have been extraordinary in their numbers.

Awaiting a return from the sea. Rock at art at Blackrock, Salthill, Galway.

Reminds me of a statute expressing similar sentiment in Urk, The Netherlands.

See: http://deworde.blogspot.com/2014/02/white-sheets-in-window-witte-lakens-in.html

Wild Garlic

GLOBAL WARMING AND (SPRING) GENTIAN WARNING

The beautiful and reasonably rare flowering Spring Gentians spotted while walking with the dogs this March 30th evening on Derrylooney, Rusheen Bay, Galway; almost a month earlier than would be expected.

The majestic Spring Gentians on west side of path up back of Derrylooney Hill, Rusheen Bay.

Google Earth view of Rusheen Bay, Barna, Galway.

From same path on north side of Derrylooney Hill, but

other side (east) of path and taken on 2nd April 2023.

THE SNOWCOLD LIGHT

 

THE SNOWCOLD LIGHT

 

Here:

Southwards, the horizon of sky and land embrace,

The azimuth smothered by a Snowcold light,

Here; in deep crevasses without trace,

On Burren's grey karst-bound might.

There:

Eastwards, on the frozen steppes of Dantean space,

Keened by the bittern cry of a Snowcold light,

There; is found a true resilient grace,

Tempered by the black evil of an infernal fight.

Nowhere:

Downwards; Two swimmers, dive then swim;

Through crested waves of a Snowcold light: invigorate.

No; Where soldiers dive then die, on a whistled whim,

And crimson killing fields remain: emancipate.

 

Looking South across Galway Bay towards a snowcapped

Burren from Blackrock Diving Platform, Salthill, Galway.