Barna Bog - Dog Days

 Our Cocker Spaniel of 6 months on the bog today.

Amongst the rushes

The look!

in full flow.....

GALWAY SUNRISE 10th DECEMBER 2022

 

HOT AIR RISING & COLD AIR DESCENDING OVER GALWAY BAY DECEMBER 9TH, 2022

 

GALWAY BACCHANALIA 17TH NOVEMBER 2022

Images from the by-now traditional high-spirited, even higher-skirted, Christmas jumpered, fake-tanned, funny-hatted all day romp on the streets and in the pubs of Galway known as the Students' Christmas; the excuse ( if ever one was needed) for a pre-Christmas exam bacchanalian fest.

THE MUSHROOM TREE – BARNA WOODS, GALWAY, IRELAND 1st OCTOBER 2022

While walking the dogs today in the local woods I came across this Beech tree with what I hoped, somewhat romantically, were symbiotic mushrooms growing on it from ground level to the highest branches. No other trees in vicinity had same arrangement. Beech trees do depend entirely on a symbiotic relationship with fungi, but these are in the soil (mycorrhizae) and not, as far as I am aware, as outcrops on the trunk and branches. Not much foliage on tree ( will have to check again in spring) so it is far more likely that the tree is entirely or almost entirely standing dead wood providing for the present a nutrient rich skeleton for parasitic rather than symbiotic fungi, until an Atlantic storm topples it.

Like a scene from Avatar

 

BOG WALK BEARNA 15th August 2022: A PURPLE HAZE

Marsh Woundwort

Tutsan and Common Knapweed

Weevil and Tufted Vetch

Bindweed

Bell Heather

Bramble Rose

Irish Brighteye

Taking the Devil by the horns... Devil's Bit Scabious

Loosestrife

Thistle

Sea Bindweed

Rosebay Willowherb

St. Dabeoc's Heath

Cross Leaved Heath

Water Mint

The Bog Boardwalk

Gorse Glen

Honeysuckle/Woodbine

Montbretia

Clover