Just before sunrise

My mother Noreen and her brother Mattie Walsh (1921-2012)

The O----- in November

Sebastian Castalio's Homer, 1561

We recently collected this book from the Ox Bindery in County Sligo. The cover was restored and the spine replaced by Benjamin van de Wetering. Benjamin also made a new case for the book, with a 'book shoe' to support the text block. See earlier posts (May 2012) for views of the text.

Camouflage

Evening light, Ballycroy

The O----- in Flood

Marsh helleborine

Pipewort

Haymaker's Nissan

Izzie and the Boatman

Honeysuckle in Puck's Lane

Puck's Lane

The steep banks of this boreen harbour a great variety of flowers at this time of year. The road is known locally as Róidín a' Phúca, Puck's Lane.

Wild rose

Common spotted orchid

Croy Lodge

W.H. Maxwell, author of Wild Sports of the West, stayed here. The lodge is at the mouth of the Owenduff river.

Fluted columns, Owenduff river

Cow parsley

Homeri Opera

Sebastian Castalio's Homer, Basel, 1561

A field of irises

Old woodland track, Doon wood

Wood anemones, 31.3.2012, Doon Peninsula

Primrose

13.2.2012