On Grafton Street, Dublin, you’ll find people selling flowers to passing pedestrians. There are a few of them, so business must be pretty good. Lots of foot traffic in the area, though. Lovely displays of colour too.

On Grafton Street, Dublin. Yes, it’s raining. Get the umbrella out!

On a warm October evening, there was no need for wool caps or scarves.

Man looking right, woman in the bus looking left, and a red man says stop.

Two women walk past the entrance to Trinity in Dublin. The 396 bus drives past.

Train tracks lead off over the River Liffey in Dublin from the Tara Street Railway Station. Liberty Hall stands in the background on the other side of the river.

It’s not every day you see a man walk by with a cat lying across his shoulder, but this day in Malaga I did. He was squeezing some kind of paste on to his finger, which I presume may have been a treat for his cat. That cat was very interested in what he was…

The new year was welcomed by fireworks lit by a random guy in Plaza de la Marina in Malaga. I thought there would be spectacular fireworks over by the lighthouse as the clocks struck 12, but no, the skies remained empty. We turned away and saw fireworks lighting the sky next to the towering Hotel…

On a busy street in Dublin, with the rain falling. Luckily, most people came prepared with umbrellas.

Washing on the line, flowers growing in pots, a satellite dish receiving signals from space. All things you see in any other back garden, but visible in the middle of Dublin city on Holles Street.

A woman reads her newspaper in a café on Grafton Street, Dublin.

Twenty years ago on the streets of Chicago I saw a carriage being pulled by a horse and a bored driver. Today I learned while looking up more information about these trips that Chicago banned horse drawn carriages in 2021. Prices seemed to range from $120/hour up past $500/hour.