I feel that, what with it being April Fool’s Day, that I ought to have some kind of funny picture to post here today. But I don’t, so this will have to do. Ted, taken on the beach at Cobh on a day of island-wandering.
Kitsnaps: Castle Key
I believe it’s Castle Key, and Lough Key, that the Fairy Bridge photograph was taken at, and where I wish to go again with the 40 & 50mm lenses to take pictures of the bluebells. :) Yes, yes it is. I just went and looked it up. This would be another place I’d want to recommend to tourists, or possibly just people with small children, as there’s a lot of ground to run around on here, and good stuff to play on, and also it’s preposterously beautiful. That castle is,…
Recent Reads: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
I haven’t read this in decades. It still works. :) I was a little surprised at the fairy tale qualities that I didn’t remember from childhood, but even so, they were less Fairy-Tale-Weird than most, er, non-invented? fairy tales. I mean, fairy tales make no sense at all in terms of “Oh hey, a glass mountain, oh look, a magic flying saddle appears to help me climb it!” Right, but, er, why did the magic flying saddle appear at all? Where did it come from? This makes slightly more sense…
Recent Reads: How To Grow More Vegetables
I ran across this title while poking around the web for self-sufficiency zombie apocalypse sorts of things, and found it highly recommended, so I thought what the hell, and bought it. I’m not even a gardener (though I have ambitions), and even so, this book was really just completely fascinating to read. I have no idea if everybody would find it so interesting, but wow, I’d think if you have any impulse toward (food) gardening at all, you want to read this one. I mean, they’re selling a product, to…
Kitsnaps: Church of Ireland, Killarney
Killarney looks like someone went around to American tourists, asked their opinions on what a charming Irish village should look like, then came back and purpose-built it to suit those imaginary visions. It’s absolutely beautiful and I genuinely recommend any tourists to Ireland go there, because it truly does look just as one imagines Ireland *would*. It’s also the only place I’ve ever actually seen a Lamborghini. I don’t know if I have a picture of the Lamborghini. It was 20 years ago, the first time I came to Ireland,…