The Night Before Halloween

Ilsa

so polite

it hailed so much that it accumulated!

Drinking

randomly found in the bathtub room above the sink

Titles?

my standard class notebook

First Day Back to Classes

Trinity College

Reward

i present to you what i made (unknowing of the time) at 7.3am.
cranberries covered in 88% dolfin dark chocolate

only 1 more essay to go and much better, the essay that was giving me problems is DONE

"You Don't Look Irish"

self-portrait in urban rain gear

an attempt to swing back into fotoaday mode. essay (procrastination/) writing day.
the most common conversation (by far) i've had here is the following:
"so where are you from?"
t: why?
"well, you don't look irish."
variations: "you don't sound irish" "you don't seem irish" and my favorite, "you don't walk like you're irish"

2 Different Types of Light

high noon at Rathmines

beginning of dusk at Dublin Castle

Medieval

gate in the old city walls (it's hard to take fotos on cloudy days btw)

quite old, yeah

wall and st. audeon's

spiderwebs in the gate obviously disused

Walk to the Bus

Towards the bus stop

homeward bound

Archery

a great round. see those yellows? oh yeah, all other arrows were in the red for me.

however, i am too slowly learning to not raise my elbow too high and to use a heavier bow b/c i've been hitting my arm with the string. ow.

Kilkieran High Cross

the high cross

close up of the carving

this former monastic site also had a holy well

and the depressing strangers' corner right next to the gate

Carlow-Portal Tomb

left side of it

portal part

my professor as size indication

MASSIVE capstone

capstone is just placidly resting on these pillars

Interesting places shouldn't be easy to get to-Wicklow Mountains

a map from Brian that shows our hike...yep

Our first stop, Church

old broken gravestones

up on the top of that mountain? see that 'house'? that's where we were headed, Hellfire Club

Abandoned Botanical Garden in Massy Woods

Abandoned Botanical Gardens

a swing in the middle of the woods

Hell Fire Club

Through the window

up the chimney

we saw a full rainbow arching over the view of most of Dublin

i felt as if i'd be swept off the mountain for this shot

yep, windswept

Fairy Castle

Countryside over the bog and the rolling storms

3 Rock Mountain

Still on 3 Rock Mountain (our last stop)

Geology!

of course, i fell and hurt myself. you try cleaning out a cut when the water gets blown away more often than hits your hand...ah well.

about 25km, 7 hours, A LOT OF WIND, a dash of irish rain, a full arced rainbow arching over the view, and 3 deer.

Knockroe

Prof O'Suilleahban in lecture: "depending on the rain, we may have to cross a stream or a river"

It was in-between stream and river. it was fast flowing and wet in any case.

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It was in-between stream and river. it was fast flowing and wet in any case.

Prof: "and there is a short walk with a slight incline"

Knockroe

Smaller satellite tomb

Kerbstones....we've had lectures on the exact measurements of these things

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Kerbstones....we've had lectures on the exact measurements of these things

Passage of the Passage Tomb

a shot in which i use my professor for my own aims aka size comparision

smaller passage

See the rock art on the heaviest decorated kerbstone?

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See the rock art on the heaviest decorated kerbstone?

See the rock art on the heaviest decorated kerbstone?

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see any here?

A closer look, you have to see it now.

Cupmarks, a type of rock art

the chamber

The Grand stone...the only undecorated, pink quartz stone in the chamber and purposely balanced by a different decorated orthostat

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The Grand stone...the only undecorated, pink quartz stone in the chamber and purposely balanced by a different decorated orthostat

look at that rock art!