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Your future: wear a beard

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 by Donncha
Your future: wear a beard

Important decisions in life. What job will I do in the future and should I wear a beard? I’ve got the job bit covered, but would I look better with a beard? I think there’d be trouble if I tried growing one! :)

The wearbeard sticker really caught my eye. It’s just weird to create a site about that but it takes all sorts I guess.

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Margi, of Ladywolf Glass

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 by Donncha
Margi Wainio

Margi is an artist and business woman living in , in the US. She makes beautiful and glass beads from this small building near an iron smith in the town. I bought a few items for my wife and she loves them.

If you’re near , call in and say hi. She’s busy but is lovely to chat with and will gladly sell you beautiful jewelry!

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Fred Fans Go Wild!

Monday, May 12th, 2008 by Donncha
Fred Fans

Two enthusiastic fans of band, , when they played at the May Day celebrations in back in 2005. I loved their first album, but the second one was just more of the same. Great to hear and watch live though!

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Shih Tzu in the sun

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 by Donncha
Shih Tzu in the sun

We attended a beautiful christening in Fermoy today and afterwards it was off to where we joined the other guests in a light lunch of finger food and sandwiches. Loved that apple tart afterwards. Yum!

This is our shih tzu, , who we took along for the drive. After the main course was over half the piled out onto the adjoining terrace and so I got from the car. He had a great time, and was a big hit with all the kids but we did warn them he was a little odd and liable to snap so they were careful. Later I checked the temperature in the car dashboard and it said 25C which I hope is as hot as it’s going to get in this year. I had to seek the shade, it was so hot!

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The birds of Schull

Friday, May 9th, 2008 by Donncha
birds of schull

Two wander into the on the slip that serves the Bere Ferry in .

Jacinta was the first to notice that actually, the Bere Ferry does not go from . It lands at Castletownbere! Oops!

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Allihies Beach

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 by Donncha
Allihies Beach

I look outside now and see the hazy and rain that has descended on and wonder if I was really at and saw the fluffy cumulus stretching off into the distance. It seems like a another lifetime.

Today my wife, Jacinta, and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary. It’s a joyful day because we are a family with our mad little son but it’s also the first anniversary of Jacinta’s sister’s untimely passing from this world. We went for dinner this afternoon with her family and it was a cheerful gathering, but of course in quiet moments, one’s thoughts stray to Gerry who wasn’t there.

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T.J. Newman, Schull

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 by Donncha
tj newman

We had lunch in T.J. Newman’s in the town of last month. Lovely thick bread in the sandwiches I got. Kept us going for ages and tasty too! Adam loved looking at all the paintings upstairs!

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Daisies in the grass

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by Donncha
Daisies in the grass

This is really looking back into the archives. I shot this in 2004, probably with the and at a guess probably in the park near the Gun Powder Mills in . Long time ago. Lovely day!

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Black and White Tractor

Monday, May 5th, 2008 by Donncha

A ploughing his caught my attention while out driving with Adam (trying to get him to sleep, it worked!)
The saw me and asked the usual “why are you photographing me?” question but was friendly enough. Plenty of work to be done anyway as he was only halfway through the !

When I saw the scene I pictured the contrasting bright and dark halves of the ground, but the day was so bright it was difficult to shoot the shadow close by me. I had to clone out a really annoying power line going right across the top half of the image too!

Shot just outside in Co. .

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Bench and Wheel

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 by Donncha
bench and wheel

A decorative and on the in . I took so many shots of the place I’m still struggling to catch up and mark the ones I want to work on but I will eventually get to them. I suspect some may not see the light of day until next year though!

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