Happy new year everyone! This is your reminder if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere that warm days will come again. And also to change 2016 to 2017 in your applications that don’t support using templates for dates. If you’ve hard coded 2016 in your backup script then shame on you and change it now!

The sun was slow to rise this day in January 2015. Photo taken from Monacnapa Estate in Blarney. Unfortunately cars were slow that day too as the roads were so icy!

Nollaig Shona! December 2016

One of the trees in the grounds of Blarney Castle in early morning light. October 2016.

Blarney Castle, May 2015.

Autumn, 2014. The tree to the far right is gone now and the small tree behind it is a beautiful blaze of yellow and orange.

October was a fabulous month with very mild weather and hardly any rain. 🙂