http://johnsmyth.ie/blog Despatches from the West of Ireland. Tue, 22 May 2012 23:44:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2009/12/28/the-golden-conifer/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2009/12/28/the-golden-conifer/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:36:56 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=2075
I had great plans for photographing a particular set of conifers in tree plantation in east Galway when they were wearing their autumn colours. But the flooding and the foul weather made the trees inaccessible, and the winds blew all of the pine needles off. So this picture, taken a few weeks ago, will have to suffice.

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A beech tree photographed 2 weeks ago in Portumna Forest Park. The leaves had yet to turn – a sign of the mild weather this October.

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This picture was taken a little while before this one on the cycle path in South Park, near Nimmo’s Pier in Galway city. (Bigger version here). Yes, it is the same tree. UPDATE : Here too. And it is the same cyclist too.

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Snow clouds roll in over a forestry plantation in Kilglass in east Galway (it began snowing a few minutes after I took this picture last week)

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