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Tuesday, 06 April 2021 15:01
Northern Ireland - Coronavirus / COVID-19 Updated April 2021
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Northern Ireland's vaccination program for COVID-19 is gathering pace, with over 700,000 or close to 50% of the population having had at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Some restrictions are lifting or easing soon, for instance an opening of many shops and businesses with schools also returning from the 12th of April. However, tourism remains restricted with Panoramic…
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Saturday, 27 March 2021 21:29
The Dark Hedges, Ireland's Most Photographed Avenue
Written by Darren McLoughlin
County Antrim's Dark Hedges is by now one of the most famous avenues in the world. Made by a local landowner who planted the beech trees 300 years ago to mark the approach to his house; made famous by HBO's Game of Thrones as the King's Road over the past decade. The fine scene has changed much since this image,…
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Of course trees don't just give us large canopies of leaves and branches, they often provide some of the finest flowers such as these cherry blossoms. This image is from outside of the hospital where I received chemotherapy two years ago, the dark wood of the cherry and those delicate pinky-white petals make for a fine display and one that…
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Wednesday, 24 March 2021 01:47
Tree Panorama for National Tree Week 2021, Ireland
Written by Darren McLoughlin
For today's National Tree Week post here is a fine 360-degree panorama or photosphere of a scenic beech wood in Ireland. Covered in moss and with its own little niche containing water, a wooden rockpool this was one of the finest trees in the woods. Beech trees Fagus sylvatica are not native to Ireland but these characterful imports from Europe…
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Thursday, 25 March 2021 00:09
The Mighty Scots Pine, Pine Island Connemara
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Few places in the west of Ireland can compete with the scenic beauty of Pine Island and its attractiveness for the photographer. The small island sitting Derryclare Lough is covered with a fine stand of Scots Pine trees, a native conifer to Ireland the Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris is one of the most obvious trees in the Irish landscape. Here,…
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Tuesday, 23 March 2021 20:50
Seeking Shelter - A Hot Day in Kilkenny - Horses vs Cows
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Like my previous post, this is one of trees providing shelter for animals but trees of course don't just provide shelter on cold and stormy days, as seen here on hot summer days too. It was a hot day in Kilkenny, one of those fine June days when Ireland is awash with colour and the smell of warmth as temperatures…
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Monday, 22 March 2021 22:08
Twin Tree Sheep Shelter, Wicklow, Ireland - National Tree Week 2021
Written by Darren McLoughlin
I have written about almost-treeless landscapes in Ireland before, usually upland areas such as here in the Wicklow Mountains. And here, two old sycamore trees stand together alone above the boggy terrain, in bad weather providing shelter for sheep as seen in this image. Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus is not native to Ireland, thought to have been introduced from Europe before…
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Sunday, 21 March 2021 20:25
The Lone Windswept Tree - National Tree Week 2021
Written by Darren McLoughlin
This lone and windswept tree prepares for another tough year of growing, its short stature and horizontal growth shows the direction of prevailing winds. Clearly this side of the small lake makes for difficult growing conditions, the far side being more sheltered and with deeper soils supports a small natural woodland of upright trees. Trees provide a focal point for…
For all you dendrophiles, Sunday 21st of March 2021 sees the start of National Tree Week here in Ireland. So here is an image of one of the most iconic of Ireland's native trees. the ash. Ash is the most common tree found in Irish hedgerows, it grows tall to around 40 metres and its bark becomes fissured with age.…
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Tuesday, 09 March 2021 23:58
Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna - Yellow Flowers in an Irish Woodland in Spring
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna is a bright, colourful spring flower in the Irish countryside that often carpets woodlands, riverbanks and lower hedgerows between March and May; with its heart-shaped leaves and bright glossy yellow petals it is amongst the first flashes of colour after the long dark months of the Irish winter. One of the Irish countryside's stars of spring,…
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Wednesday, 24 February 2021 23:29
The Irish Honeybee, Apis mellifera mellifera
Written by Darren McLoughlin
The Irish honeybee Apis mellifera mellifera is Ireland's only native honeybee, it's a bee with a dark abdomen and is also known as the European dark bee. Seen here in late February, just before the end of winter meteorologically-speaking or at the start of Irish spring, this honeybee has been extraordinarily busy collecting nectar and pollen on a bright afternoon…
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Tuesday, 02 February 2021 01:20
Oh Dear, Frosty in the Wicklow Mountains with Irish Deer
Written by Darren McLoughlin
We have had a lot of snow so far this year but not all winter days in the Irish mountains are white with deep drifts, here in the Wicklow Mountains deer stop on the frosty-white uplands. A brief moment of calm before they bound and leap across the terrain deeply cut from centuries of peat or turf cutting. Herds of…
Sunday, 24 January 2021 22:20
Ireland Gets a Light Dusting of Snow, Winter 2021
Written by Darren McLoughlin
It doesn't snow that often in Ireland, but it does snow more often than you think, particularly in the meteorological winter months of December, January and February. The middle of January 2021 has seen some snow falling over much of Ireland but accumulations have been small; lasting, as snow typically does in Ireland, for only a few days at upper…
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Sunday, 24 January 2021 01:12
Path to the Rainbow, Ireland - COVID-19 / Coronavirus Update
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Ireland is currently on a Level 5 lockdown due to the COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemic, the country had one of the best - lowest - rates of infection in Europe until recent weeks where we unfortunately saw the 14-day incidence rate become the highest in the world. Now as Ireland grapples to try and reduce one of the world's highest…
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