Look up and see naked branches cover the sky with their evil and treacherous appendages, and then walk straight into some dog sh*t that an uncaring owner neglected to clean up.

Yellow spots mark the parking spaces while the Elysian looms overhead!

Volunteers sang their hearts out in Ballincollig a few days ago for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Collection. Happy Christmas! Hope you have a great day!

The Elysian, as it was in March 2008, still under construction while the Irish Economy economy fell apart around it.

Bare naked trees are all you’ll see along the Marina in Blackrock at this time of year but in April the leaves are budding and life is returning.

The Clarion Hotel and the Boardwalk on the River Lee, Cork. March 2008.

I am Legend.

Flowers in a garden centre, probably the one out in Inniscarra. In the new year I’m sorely tempted to change the posting frequency on this blog from daily to every third day. Blogging should bring pleasure and be a means of expressing oneself while stimulating your audience and improving oneself. I have so little time…

A field in Bantry, County Cork. Way up in the hills surrounding the town.

A very happy crew member of the Köln when she docked in Cork in 2005. Now that I’ve archived my photo collection to DVD (only 41 DVDs for 2009 so far!) I’m converting RAW files to Jpeg to reduce the insane storage requirements of 179GB of data for 2009 alone. As an example, I squashed…

Two Flo Gas gas cylinders sit inside the office of a derelict garage near Blarney.

Strong shadows in exceptionally bright sunlight in May 2008 in Blarney.