Changes

We have had so many problems with Blogger.com over the past few weeks that we have decided to move our blog. Please go back to our first page (www.irishrainphotography.com) and click on the blog/journal links there! and don't forget to reset your bookmarks also!!!



Thanks a million!

Wallace and Dee

Problems...

We have been having problems with the website this past week... sorry that it has not been updating. I'm actually in the process of updating and completely changing the website! So.. keep checking back with us!

In the meantime... here are a few more pictures from Hollywood.

More from Hollywood...

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Live from the Oscars!

Don't know if you know it... but I have made my way to the west coast of the USA. I've been out here for the past week working... and taking photos in my spare time! I have not had too much time for sightseeing... but I was able to get over to Hollywood yesterday. The place was crazy with preparations for the Oscars Sunday night! BUT... I did get a piece of THE Red Carpet!!!

I was collecting some dirt from the base of a palm tree (for my dirt collection - of course)... one of the workers saw me and came over to see what I was doing. He then asked if I would like a piece of the red carpet and handed me a section through the fence. How crazy is that??? I think that it is the perfect Hollywood souvenir!





















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More from Greenland...

Here are just a few more pics from Greenland.


Check out the glacier!



















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Long Silence...

Sorry for the long silence here on the site! I have been on the road for what feels like a month, but probably really has been only a week! I have just now gotten back online and had a chance to look at some of the hundreds of photos I've taken in the last few days. Needless to say, Travel = photos! Here are just a couple of quick ones I took of Greenland. Yep! Greenland.














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Today's Random Pic...

We spotted the first of this year's lambs this weekend!







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A Follow Up Pic

Here is a picture of my amazing wife...








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The Hermit's Hut

Soon after I moved to Ireland a read a beautiful poem written by a tenth century Irish Saint. The words of the poem have stuck with me and often ring in my ears when I see an old ruined stone cottage. I often stop and reflect and dream of what it must have looked like years ago when it was full of life, peaceful, and was beautiful...

I wanted to share with you a bit of the poem...

The Hermit's Hut ...

"I have a hut in the wood, none knows it by my Lord; an ash tree this side, a hazel on the other, a great tree on a mound encloses it.

Two heathery door-posts for support, and a lintel of honey-sickle; around its close the wood sheds its nuts upon fat swine.

The size of my hut, small yet not small, a place of familiar paths; the she-bird in its dress of blackbird colour sings a melodious strain from its gable.
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A little hidden lowly hut, which owns the path-filled forest; will you go with me to see it?
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a tree of apples of great bounty,..., huge; a seemly crop from small-nutted branching green hazels, in cluster like a fist.

Excellent fresh springs - a cup of water, splendid to drink- they gush forth abundantly; yet berries, bird-cherries...

Tame swine lie down around it, goats, young pigs, wild swine, tall deer, does, a badger's brood.

Peaceful, in crowds, a grave host of the countryside, an assembly at my house; foxes come to the wood before it - it is delightful..."
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Without an hour of quarrel, without the noise of strife which disturbs you, grateful to the Prince who gives every good to my in my hut...









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Today's Random Pic...

A follow-up pic from the last one. This is another shot of the clouds on the mountain... Those little white dots are sheep grazing...







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Watching Clouds...

One of my first memories of moving to Ireland is sitting in our little green car watching the clouds (with their dark shadows and falling rain) move slowly over the mountains. That cold bright day came to my mind today as I stopped the car and watched the clouds for a few moments... Almost seven years later, and I still often sit in amazement at the skies here...








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Today's Random Pic...

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