Old Gnarled Tree

In the green, green forest...

Trees in Mist

Laid Bare

Fairy tree

Clinging Vine

Castle Dargan Lake

Old Soldier

The grounds of Castle Dargan has a number of ancient trees, and especially in the winter they make fantastic outlines against the horizon; they dominate the vista from almost any point on the golf course and especially as you walk towards the castle and turn then back to face the Hotel.

St Patrick's Well, Christmas

On the way home from Kildare early on Christmas morning we stopped at the sacred well in a graveyard just outside Newbridge; a lovely place, especially in the sunny mildness of that morning. These are some views from the graveyard around the well.

Sunrise

Wet Leaves Carpet

From the Tree Tops

Autumn Leaves

A friend who lives on a rock in the north sea was bemoaning the lack of trees (nothing can grow higher than a hedgerow because of the wind) and asked for photos to remind him of the colours and look of Autumn...this is one I took on the spur of the moment yesterday morning, a pile of leaf litter outside my parents' house. I was pleased that I manage to frame the central leaf, and that it wasn't just a pile of dirty leaves!

The Wind Made Me

Stunted, twisted and warped by the wind, into a strange beuaty; trees that still provide shade and shelter, a canopy over lush grazing.

Autumn WIllow

Taken this mornign 6/10/07 on the way to work in Kimmage, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

Sun through Redwood Giants, Yosemite

"we were dwarfed by them: overawed and submissive before their grandeur"

Sunlight through the Redwoods, Yosemite, USA