WINDSONG

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

RANDOM GLIMPSES OF NATURE

THISTLE ADMIRAL

CURLEW'S FLIGHT

DROMOLAND AUTUMN

SKELLIG 'HEAD-THE-BALL' GANNETT

PILGRIMS PROGRESS

WEST CORK KNITTING

MUSHROOM GARLANDED BEECH TREE

Barna Woods, Galway.

Thursday, January 19, 2023

SUNSET BLACKROCK, SALTHILL, GALWAY 19th January 2023

A 'LIGHTBULB' MOMENT

WARPED CONVERSATIONS

BETWEEN TWO LIGHTS

THE CLOUD

Monday, December 26, 2022

Barna Bog - Dog Days

Our Cocker Spaniel of 6 months on the bog today.

Amongst the rushes

The look!

in full flow.....

Friday, November 18, 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.

Saturday, October 01, 2022

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.