Another One Of My Walks Where We Live.

A walk on the Northside (thus my blog title!) looking across the bay to Beara peninsula.

Going south.  You can see Dunmanus Bay in the distance. 

A lonely looking house.

More Faeries Fingers.

Hawthorn flower.  My mother called it "Mother Death".  It was considered bad luck to take this in your house in northwest England.

Ferns or bracken.  Poisonous to livestock and ferns should never be handled by your uncovered hand .  Some people claim ferns are cancerous. 

Gorse or furze.  Often used to make stockproof hedges.  In Galway people would grow fields of it and harvest it and sell it for firewood.

Cattle nonchalant  grazing and chewing  the cud.

Poached egg plant in a rural garden.

Grandma's Bonnets or Aquilegia.  Old garden favourites that self seed and come back every year.

A log cabin holiday home.  Very tastefully painted and blended in with the scenery. 

Back over towards Bantry Bay.

Rabbit and Church islands which I use to pass on the ferry to work on Whiddy and back to Bantry Pier in the evening. 

My bottle of water having a rest on a stone table positioned there for the walkers.

Sheep on the Sheep's Head Way.

An old cairn stone now being repurposed for a fingerpost for the hikers.

Ancient stone wall.  I thought of Clannad when I took this shot.

Ancient stone ruin.  Maybe an animal shelter or an humble abode for someone?

St Patricks cabbage from the other days post.

Yellowflag iris.

Another glimpse at Dunmanus Bay.

 Now I am not drinking alcohol I have got a lot of my energy back.  Thirty one miles in a week isn't bad for a sixty your old blog writer and plant propagator fanatic is it?