North Wales is packed full of stunning scenery, beaches, mountains and castles of course. We really enjoyed our week there recently. And it was lovely to catch up with friends and relatives.
I thought I would show you a little collage of photos seeing as this week’s Photo Challenge was – Collage
Some of you may have noticed that my Silent Sunday photo was not from Ireland but Wales. We spent another lovely week in North Wales last week visiting Grandparents.
This particular bend in the road I took for the One A week Photo Challenge – Turn
Rural north Wales
In rural Ireland, turf is an important fuel resource for many families. These days modern methods of peat cutting can very damaging to bog habitats particularly when carried out on an industrial scale. But even on smaller scales, modern turf cutting machines are being used more and more often, and the impact of these isn’t positive. The picture below shows rows of machine cut turf – sometimes called sausage turf.
Machine cut turf
Even when modern machines cut the turf, it is still footed by hand. Footing involves stacking the individual sods so that they dry. Dried turf is then put in stacks till people are ready to bring it home.
Post inspired by this weeks one a week’s photo challenge – Modern.
Machine cut turf
Happy Easter – hope you find some chocolate surprises in your gardens!
Well the luck of the Irish wasn’t with us today for our local St Patrick’s Day Parade but how great that everyone still came out – both those participating and onlookers. I just loved this yellow bee hive made from yellow drainage pipe.
And despite the rain there was lots of colour and great messages.
No more than gates you can find a wide variety of fences in County Mayo (Ireland). You may have seen a couple of these before.
Inspired by this week’s One a Week Challenge – Fence
There is something about gates that I like, particularly the old iron ones you sometimes come across, on the back roads around the west of Ireland.
Inspired by this week’s One a Week Challenge – Gate
