Beautiful Beech
Note: not all of my images made it through the import process, some were lost in a photo sharing program I used to use.
I am every day amazed by the loveliness that is around me here on the hill. How lucky am I to live here?
What joy! This morning as we drove down the hill what crossed the road in front of us but a beautiful red squirrel! What a lovely sight. For a moment we could not make out exactly what we were looking at as this strange little creature ran across the road, he didn’t seem to be…
What a beautiful find this morning in the woods…
Here are a few pictures of the last of the snow (as far as we know)
Today we are fog bound, we can only see about 100 metres. It’s a dense, wet fog, the kind that stills sounds and feels really cold. We even lit a fire this morning and that very rarely needs to happen, especially in October. This week we had a beautiful, hot, sunny day. Right from sun-rise…
How do you eat your almond butter? With a teaspoon usually, or sometimes a raw carrot. I was buying my weekly small jar of organic almond butter from Nature Trail, my local health-food shop in Leitrim and as we chatted by the checkout I was asked how do I eat almond butter? I guess the…
I have put up some mileage over the last ten days and seen blackthorns in all their beauty. Blackthorns and whitethorns, known as hawthorns in other countries, abound in our hedges and brighten up this time of year so much. The blackthorn flowers before it comes into leaf and the whitethorn comes into leaf before…