Random prettieness. Meaning, I still have pictures and just ran out of creative ways to organize them.

Ruins in Glendalough

Waterfall in Wicklow

Some random forest. Do I need a reason to have a pretty picture of sun lit trees?

Sally Gap in Wicklow

Strange bumps...

and pretty flowers

One tree or many? Killarney National Park.

Town of Dingle as seen from Connor's pass.

The ocean on the Slea Head drive in the Dingle Peninsula.

Hardy plants that have avoided being blow off the rocks. Dingle Peninsula.

Pretty ocean

I like dripping rock walls, and the plants that grown on them. Dingle Peninsula.

The Sleeping Giant. Dingle Peninsula.

Yes, I do like flowers.

Newgrange

Newgrange. A megalithic passage tomb. It rather reminds me of a giant hobbit hole. From the outside at least.

Inside it's a bit different. It's cool and feels like the cave that it is. On the winter solstice the sun shines through an opening above the door and illuminates a beam through the passageway.

The light only lasts seventeen minutes. I wonder how the ancient builders figured out how to place the stones in exactly the right place.

The building of the tomb must've taken more than a generation. Do people now - in these days of instant gratification - have the patience to embark on a project like that?

Oh and by the way, that was the most yellow flowers in one place that I've ever seen in my life. And take note of the little hobbit hole in the middle of the field.

Rainbow

Blue sky!!!

oh whatever shall we do? The sky is actually blue!

The Rock of Cashel and Hore Abby

So on the way back to Dublin from Dingle we stopped at the Rock of Cashel

Instead of going inside the castle, we walked around it, looked down a hill and saw this

we walked a little further and found a path down the hillside . . .

through a sheep pasture

we got to the bottom of the hill and had a nice view

crossed a street and found this

(click the sign to view it larger)

and a gate, and a path with a little company

like this guy

then we got into the ruins of the old abbey

flowers. . .

the sun came out and it was quite pretty

and there was a great view of the Rock of Cashel

I liked the old abbey, cows, sheep and all

eventually we went back to the Rock of Cashel and toured around there

but I still think the Hore abbey was my favorite part of the day