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Rose: Philadelphia Church ruins - Turkey

Model Railroading

sepia: HO diesel

A friends layout with HO Santa FE diesel

Street - Houses, N. Ireland

colourful houses

Created on iPad SketchMee app

Colourful houses on a street in Northern Ireland.

Geraniums

gereaniums

Red geraniums on house near entrance to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland

The Giant's Causeway

Red Coat

The 'Giant's Causeway' is a natural phenomenon in Northern Ireland. What you see are basalt columns that seem to interlock - about 40,000 of them, stretching into the North Atlantic.

Yellow Door

yellow door

2180 Ponte Rione

Rail Diorama

Old Truck

Created with Sketchmee on my iPad

A friend's HO layout.

Ah, Spring!

Bluebells and rogue tulip

In Spring - coming soon to a garden near you.

Holy Week

Gethsmane Prayer

Nevertheless, not my will but Yours be done . . .

After All Those Years

An old wooden house still standing in Lanark County, Ontario. The Ottawa Valley

Old Log Barn

Ottawa Valley barn

Lanark County, Ontario

Another Time

HO Model Railroad

George Watson's model railroad with this scene depicting an old Canadian Pacific boxcar and a diorama street scene of a by-gone day.

Cro Patrick, Westport, Cp. Mayo, Ireland

Cro Patrick; also Cruachán Aigle – [Irish Cruach Phádraig, Patrick’s stack or cone].

Doorway to _ ?

sepia, ancient ruin

Sepia of door at ruined Dunluce Castle in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

St. Padraigh’s Day

A wee man

Taken in Temple Bar, Dublin.

Temple Bar is a series of streets on the south bank of the River Liffey. It is promoted for tourism as Dublin's cultural quarter and has a lively nightlife.

St. Patrick – a sinner . . .

St. Patrick statue inscription

Dublin Fountain and Statues

sepia: fountain of trumpeters

This sepia photo was taken while I was visiting in Dubling, Ireland. It is not far from Trinity College in a busy student and commercial area.

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Global Sphere

This beautiful, bronze, globe-shaped Sphere Within Sphere by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro is on the campus grounds of Trinity College, Dublin.

 

 

sepia: columns in Glasgow Cathedral

We were on our way to Iona, the Holy Island. But we flew into Glasgow, the home city of my wife's paternal line - Glasgow in Lanark County, Scotland.

The Purple Blue Flower

purple beauty

I love flowers - I didn't use to even notice them. But now their beauty reminds me of not only 'here' but 'there' - of a blorious Creation present and the fullness of one yet coming.

Proud Swan

All nature waits its full and final freedom . . .

Turrets and Towers

turret and window

Places of refuge, escape, new sight-lines and perspectives. We all need to get away sometimes.

Desk

sepia: desk and window

To sit and rest, think or write; to muse and get one’s thoughts out on paper – or perhaps a photo.

The Blue Ball

blown glass, blue ball

Have you seen the glass bell? Well, this is the glass ball - and it too is gorgeous.

The Glass Bell

blown glass bell

The art and creativity of some folk is just astounding, at least to me.

Crumbling Old Ontario Barn

sepia: old barn

We take for granted that these old barns, all over Ontario, will be around for ever. They won’t be.

This reminder of another day can be found just east of Rockwood, Ontario.

Flowers in a Tub

summer flowers

Love the creativity! I stopped by the roadside in Rockwood, Ontario, a beautiful town with evocative sights and places new and old. My camera captured a bit, not all, of the beauty I saw.

Yellow Flowers

yellow flowers

The wonder of summer flowers.

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