Last Sunday morning I headed off early (for me anyway) to Manor Kilbride in Co Wicklow to try to catch the last of the Autumn colour, I knew that I wasn’t going to be there at the best time for the light but I had other commitments later on in the day so I had to make the best of it.
One consolation was that I had the place pretty much to myself which doesn’t happen too often this time of the year, it always seems to be busy with a mix of photographers and the general public getting in each others way.

It’s almost exactly a year since the coldest spell of weather I cam remember hit Kildare and the rest of Ireland, at first the snow and the well subzero temperatures were something of a novelty but as the month wore on most of us were looking forward to a return to normality.

It was spectacular while it lasted though

I’ve finally bitten the bullet and moved all this blog over to WordPress, I started this project using Pixelpost which has served me well but unfortunately the team behind it has had to move on to other things and as a consequence development has halted and the forum on their site isn’t really active any more, I was afraid that some day I’d try to upload something and it wouldn’t work and I’d be offline for ages so I’ve bitten the bullet and thanks to WordPress, the Suffusion theme, the folks at eleventwentysix.com who wrote a plugin which allowed me to export all the old posts and comments from my old pixelpost install and loads of help for Google I’m up and running with almost no down time.

The photo is for a little project I’m doing for our local Photo Club, it seemed appropiate to post something “looking up” as the first new post with the new install just gone live

The coast of malta has these towers every few miles, a result I suppose of being a small Island surrounded by hostile forces.