It started off foggy and very cold this morning when I was walking the dogs at 7am. My hands were like blocks of ice when I got home - it seems a bit too soon to dig out my gloves - and I'm still waiting for summer. By the time I got into Sligo town... Continue Reading →
Holiday at Home
We have had some really beautiful weather this week and yesterday I got the chance to get out and enjoy it and to finally give the Canon D30 waterproof camera an outing. The first stop was to Lough Gill for a bit of Stand Up Paddling (which I'm going to do a separate blog post... Continue Reading →
Freezing and Fund It!
I've had trouble sleeping recently so I was awake for a few hours during the night. This was the view out of my window at 5am. I finally got to sleep for about an hour until it was time to get up, luckily tiredness hasn't hit me yet. I walked Rocket-dog at around 7am and... Continue Reading →
Snow Day
I was in bed this morning listening out for traffic. Usually there is a fair amount of traffic on the road outside our house, this morning I counted two cars. So I dragged myself to the window and sure enough there was fairly deep snow (well for Sligo anyway) so I declared it a snow... Continue Reading →
The first snow of 2015
This morning we woke up to snow in Sligo. I took the first photo on my phone in the back garden - the little white speck is the moon. The next two photos are also taken with the phone. Above is the Garavogue River opposite the council offices. I love the sky in this, a... Continue Reading →
Frozen
We've had a couple of icy mornings in Sligo so I've been messing about taking photos....nothing to do with the Frozen film in case you were wondering from the title 😉 Anyway the first two are fairly self explanatory. There were icicles over the river, the photo isn't the best and it was so cold... Continue Reading →