Irish Summer Floral Display
While the beauty of the Emerald Isle has been the subject of poetry, prose and art for many years, the annual transformation of the Irish countryside from the perpetual 40 shades of green to...
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Path through Yeats’ Fairy Forest, County Galway
Sunlight streams through trees as a serpentine path winds its way through wildflowers in the ‘fairy forest’ alongside Thoor Ballylee, former summer home to Ireland’s famed Nobel Prize-winning Poet W. B. Yeats, in County...
Fairy Thimbles and Ferns in the Irish Countryside
Sunny weather has triggered the annual explosion of color in the Irish countryside as Foxglove, the brilliant purple wildflower also called “Fairy Thimbles,” blooms alongside ferns and other greenery. Foxglove is a biennial native...
Bluebells and Wild Garlic in Coole Park, County Galway
Can you imagine the faeries and wee folk coming out of the woods to cavort among the wild garlic and bluebells in this sea of Spring greenery in the forests of Coole Park in...
Orange Wildflowers Against a Stone Wall
If you’ve been following me for any time at all, you know I love to capture images of flowers and textures of stone, infused with Irish history and soul from bygone years. This photo...
