Dense

I killed a Summer

and gave birth to an Autumn.


























Then I went home.

Sea squeeze the boat

Goodbye fast bird

You were too quick.

Cormorants

I had to break the law to get these unforgettably awe-inspiring photos of a bunch of Great Cormorants in Dún Laoghaire so a bit of gratitude wouldn't go amiss, you ungrateful swine.

Seagull breakfast

I stopped on my way to work to take a photo of this wee fella and accidentally stayed with him for about 15 minutes as he pecked at invisible morsels floating about where I was sitting.

Powder Rainbow

I like how this looks like a lovely bookshelf at first.

Like rain

I couldn't live in a country without rain.

Swanlings

Some local swans made some little bundles of grey fluff last week. The parents are unusually docile so I was able to walk right up to the swanlets and sit beside them.
Nothing wrong with taking a break from a cycle home on a warm evening to hang around with these happy little fluffy cheeky chappies.

THERE IT IS!

An in-joke that's so "in" it's become completely inbred.

Heron

Can't believe how close I got to this fella. They're usually so nervous.
Shame I didn't capitalise on the opportunity and get some good photos. ...just okay photos, as befitting the brief of this blog.

Quay

It feels strange to find myself making a kind of defence for industrialism. In fact, I'm not really making a general defence of heavy industry, one look at China and India would blow any argument away but I'm concerned with this place.
Dundalk is turning into a hole of pretence and I'm sure in my lifetime, this quay will be shut down. The slack heaps, the silos and the cranes will be replaced by huge, unspeakably boring apartments that will lie empty just like every other new building and the town will deny it's industrial past.
I post this on the same weekend I found out that the forest near my house where I did my teenaging has been completely removed and is now a barren plot of land. The good news is, it seems it will be a park/recreation space. I hope that's true.

..If anybody tears down the windmill, I think I'll kill them :)
I should take some photos of that soon, actually.

Crow

One-legged Plover

Someday I hope to hear a Screaming Piha with my own ears. Until then, the sound of lots of tiny birds singing every morning will be more than adequate.