Greetings and welcome to another open thread from your fuzzy-headed friend and tour guide, Marko the Werelynx.
Yes, I'm back to kicking off my weekly open thread post with photos from my trip to Ireland last year. After a series of photo diaries featuring Muckross Peninsula, I posted two diaries of more current and wintry photos and now find myself wanting to get back to Ireland with a small collection of photos taken on the way back to our accommodations in Clogane. Not that they couldn't be included in the next chapter of my little Irish adventure, but it just seemed more logical to me to finish up the Muckross diaries with the remaining photos taken that same day.
When I posted my photos from a hike along the shore of Muckross Lake, I may have mentioned that one of my photos was actually of a red deer. It may have looked like a photo of a lake and that the deer pictured was standing on the far shore and that at the best resolution my digital camera was capable of the deer was reduced to a slight darkening of two pixels, but I still thought it was a good joke to call it a picture of a rare Irish Red Deer. I fear I may have caused some undue eye-strain in my audience. But I did actually have a few photos of the Red Deer of Killarney taken from the bus on the way back to Cloghane.
The best of my Irish Red Deer photos
Another thing pointed out to me while I sat in a bus was that a couple homes had some rather impressive solitary Monkey Puzzle Trees growing in their gardens.
After spending a morning in and out of the rain, an afternoon in the drizzle, the clouds began to break up and our bus driver arranged for us to take a small detour to take advantage of a view that he, a native to the area, had only managed to catch on a sunny day a couple of times.
probably … MacGillycuddy's Reeks
Which reminds me —
And maybe someday I'll be able to figure out just where exactly we were enjoying those lovely views.
Right next to an old graveyard with probably the ruins of a church in it … lemme see, cemeteries, graveyards ...
Whew, finally. The location is on Aghadoe Road in Nunstown. Here's the location on Google Street View so you can wander around a bit yourself. The lovely stretch of water with all the islands in it is Lough Leane.
Finally back to Cloghane and a beer as the low light of a summer evening and the clouds dance over the hills across the inlet.
Thanks for stopping by.
This is an open thread. Please feel free to vent, rant, promote, deride, gossip and generally post whatever you've a mind to. As for me, I may be spending part of the weekend writing emails to the Help Desk as, back on December 27th, I managed to dump cache and cookies and it seemed to let me use the site from my laptop, but attempts to repeat that success have thus far failed. I tried to compose last week's diary on the laptop and that failed. So I'm on the big beast writing today, but I will be sneaking out the door momentarily for a cozy weekend out in the mud. Yes, the predicted ice storm turned out to be a couple days of slippery sidewalks followed by rain and an instance or two of fluffy pea-sized pellets. Not even a proper hail storm. Sunny out there at the moment though. I'll hopefully be romping in the comments as usual, but I may have to wait until Sunday to log back on.
