I arrived back from Vermont a week ago yesterday so it is not surprising that the memories are fresh, however I don’t think that they will ever fade. I was only there for a week, so much happened, so much was experienced that it feels as though I was there longer.
I am very much looking forward to this weekend. I am travelling to meet some wonderful women and we will spend the weekend together. We will listen to each other, talk about our selves and our experiences and cook together and walk on a beach. I cherish these women and these rare weekends. I also…
There is a large number of aliens plants growing wild in Ireland. I guess that really the definition of alien plant depends on far back you wish to go – if you go back far enough even Ash trees are alien. In recent years there has been an increase in alien plants growing wild due…
I have two lovely twisted trees in the garden, small but lovely, beag ach tá siad go hálainn. They have a beautiful but very small amount of colour at this time of year, it’s not even easy to notice unless you are really close up. The very tip of the opening bud has a teeny tiny little…
Rare Blue Skies from News From The Hill by Scribneoir The deluge continues… A few days ago the rain eased off for awhile and so I went for a walk bringing my camera with me. You gotta take the beauty where you can find it. I could not resist this shot of a sun dappled…
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…
