Red Mum: Evening rush hour
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Darren Greene: walking the dog
I was out walking my dog too but it has proven difficult to get a shot of me and meeko out walking so here's someone else out walking at Balbriggan.
Uncategorized: Starlight
Noisy, garrulous, roving about in large groups and sometimes a bit comical to look at – I wasn’t in Galway last week so I don’t know how the students behaved during Rag Week. The city is still standing so they can’t have been too bad. As for their feathered equivalents – starlings (sturnus vulgaris, druid as Gaeilge) – one can forgive them a lot given their beautiful plumage. This one was one of a group mooching for food beside the lobster pots on the pier in the Claddagh on Saturday morning.
Here is a poem by Philip Casey called Starling – the link also an amazing clips of huge flocks of starlings flying at sunset.
Hot off the Memory Card: Contrails
Contrails
I've noticed a fair number of Irish photobloggers taking photos of the blue skies so I thought I'd add my own. Are we just delighted to see the blue skies again, or so terrified they'll be gone tomorrow?
