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A painted mural, titled “Bradog” - the name of a local culverted river - showing a river with land and water wildlife - a heron, fish, swan, dragonflies & more.
Three waste caddies on a narrow pavement by a red brick terrace. There’s a car parked on the other wise of the pavement, so the space for moving is very limited limited.
Outdoors, looking at two buildings, one a ruined small manor (?) house, the other this incredible conical barn built in the mid 1700s apparently.
5 smiling people behind a table of books, outside. The An Siol Community Development Project is behind them, and there’s also a notice board and a pot of flowers.
A bank of orange metal clothes bins on a grey day.
Dark pink blossom trees and Brendan’s Cafe across the road. You can see the fruit market to the right covered in scaffolding, and hoarding which is a kind of plum colour. Smithfield/markets area Dublin.7
In a park in Newcastle Co Down. In the foreground a path, green grass and two green benches. Behind them is an old white house behind a hedge. And behind the house are the dark grey purple Mourne Mountains shrouded as they say in cloud.
A photo showing 12 pairs of boots in lots of different colours.
A sunny day with a blue sky and wisps along cloud, green grass, and an orchard of cherry blossom trees, some already in flower.
A fluffy white terrier dozing in the sunshine on a sofa. He’s wearing a blue bandana.
Sunny spring afternoon, a red brick Victorian terraced house in the background, a gorgeous magnolia tree in full bloom in the foreground. Phibsborough.
Looking down on purple and white crocuses in grass. You can just see a bee nestled in one of them.
A photograph of an outdoor book swap with two tables of books, with 10 people browsing and chatting. The sun is shining and there is multi-coloured bunting.
A suburban green, with grass & trees, and lots of crocuses & snowdrops. 1940s (?) houses in the background.
A Georgian terrace, a navy door, and a big flowering blossom tree.
Close up of bright dark pink camellias with their glossy green leaves on a very rainy day.
A very grey Dublin morning looking down the Liffey, but the nearest bridge has arches illuminated in rainbow lights above it.
A bright January morning looking down the Liffey.
Close up of two clusters of crimson berries in a green (hawthorn?) hedge.
One red-soled but otherwise patent black stiletto discarded on the street with leaves and other detritus (pic taken outside a pub.)
A pale grey morning. In the foreground three slightly battered looking white blossoms with pink stamens, behind them the trunk of their tree, and behind that a Cabra street.
Outdoors, looking at the circular silver lid covering a bore hole (?) to check out the potential for geothermal energy from the Grangegorman campus. There’s a Geological Survey label on the lid.
December, Dublin, Phoenix Park, Furry Glen. Browns and dark green and tawny colours. Background bare trees, mid ground twisted branches with yellow green moss/lichen, foreground a battered old tree with dark green ivy growing over it.
Smithfield, 7.30 in the morning, so a dark blue sky. The old distillery tower in the background and in the foreground a red and white heater skelter, a carousel, and Christmas trees with fairy lights
Kirwan St Cottages Stoneybatter. The sun is rising and there’s a pale blue and apricot streaked sky, with the terraced cottages and a central green with trees in the foreground.
A child’s artwork on green paper, giving the hours the Bring Centre is open and listing items that can be recycled there (both available via the link above), with drawings of the world, water, a lightbulb, an Irish flag, a recycling sign and more 💚
A dark grey & brown photo. A close up of a gully/drain. There’s a pale brown leaf on top, through the drain you can see lots of mud.
Pre sunrise Dublin, between Grangegorman & Smithfield. Opposite the bougie cafe if you know where that is. Black tarmac road surfaces and to the right a chunk of pale pink building, and then red street lights and reflections, a glossy new building in the background and then front & centre a great big puddle on a bend, where many a pedestrian will get splashed as cars come round the corner.
Great big sky - all kinds of white and grey and yellow clouds swirling or fluffy against a blue sky. Dublin mountains in the background. Grangegorman.
Very pale pink small blossoms against an old grey stone wall.
Handwritten (scrawled!) note which reads “Facing into a future which is intensely local.”
A pale grey drizzly day, in the foreground and taking up most of the screen, a copper and gold leaved cherry tree. It’s planted on a narrow green, and surrounded y Stoneybatter cottages.
A bright sunny morning. In the background an old building against a blue sky. In the mid ground a tree trunk. In the foreground 5 dolls’ heads suspended from the tree, blood red ribbons trailing from their necks
Big bright red pink and yellow berries on a branch against a cornflower blue sky
A pink and coral and lavender and gold sunrise over houses and trees in Cabra.
Four yellow winter jasmine flowers against the red berries and dark green leaves of cotoneaster
Killiney Bay, October. It’s sunny but kind of dramatic light. Autumn foliage of ferns and nettles green and copper in the foreground, a pale blue bay and then our mountains in the distance.
An autumn scene - looking up at golden leaves birch branches against a blue sky in Phoenix Park
A big fluffy bumblebee on a cream honeysuckle flower. There’s a fallen horse chestnut leaf stuck in the leaves behind it. Late October, Stoneybatter.
Carved turnip heads! Stuck onto black railings outside a house.
A close up of a tree with little white closed bell shaped flowers and a gently spiky apricot and dark pink fruit. With dark green shiny leaves. No idea what it is but it’s very pretty.
Green grass covered with fallen pears, you can see some of the trunks of their trees in the background