Are you ready for Hogmanay? I understand you need a torch, some coal and a bottle of whisky (no ‘e’!). I think Miss Wendy and I may just have a nice dinner out. We had a lovely trip through Connemara yesterday. Here are some lovely photos to show it. Cool and misty, but the landscape…
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Snapshots of Galway
As I’ve been getting nudges to show you a little of my new home city, here are a few snapshots from my new phone. I still don’t have internet at home (ayiii!); but I do finally have a mobile! Which means I have a camera now, too. I love living surrounded by rivers and canals…
Fancy Meeting You
Yesterday on my morning walk I ran into this snapper at the edge of Buckingham Lake. It may be a bit difficult to gauge size, so I should mention her shell was about a foot long. Clearly not in a hurry: on my first lap around the lake, she had just got out of the…
Phone Photos from NC
A GIANT dust mite at the Museum of Life and Science. A gravestone in the cemetery at Ayr Mount Flamingos at the NC Zoo My little pal Chelsea, now 18, waiting for me to go to bed so she can lick my forehead and purr so loudly that I can’t get to sleep. She’s a…
Hot Times in NC
Genuine astronaut suit at the Museum of Life and Science!Birdie flees a T-Rex!In the Butterfly House at the museum, a wild array of pretties.What happens when African elephants roll in the red NC clay: orange elephants!Birdie pets miniature zebras at the NC Zoo. All these lovely pictures taken by Mildred AKA the Demon Den Mom,…
Susan’s Pictures from the Zoo
See them all! (if that link doesn’t work, try Webshots).
UK Trip Week One
Okay, I’m going to make my usual hash of things by lumping together a bunch of things because 1) I didn’t take a lot of pictures the first week (forgetting the camera at important junctures of course) and 2) even with the aid of travel journals, memory fades. Here’s lovely Tavistock Square, where the Gandhi…