I have this lovely little Satsuki at the moment. It belongs to Bertie, one of our club members who exhibited it at our recent exhibition. I have it until he returns from holiday. I couldn’t resist a photo in flower.
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Belfast Walls
I’ve been meaning to post a few images of some of the wall murals that are seen here in Northern Ireland and more specifically, in Belfast.
There’s is a lot of history here to do with the ‘Troubles’ and in the past most murals were to do with Paramilitaries on both sides of the conflict.
In recent years we have seen a slow change from this towards messages of peace and greater understanding. Some have been painted over and replaced with historical images relating to the local community.
On my way back from the exhibition on Sunday, I had the camera in the car and I jumped out and look a few quick snaps at the bottom of the Newtownards Road in Belfast. This was, and in some ways still is, an interface area where conflict occurs between both sides.
I thought this was rather inspiring.
You can see the shipyard cranes in the background. This area was were many of the workers came from to work on the Titanic. They have changed another gable wall to remember this feat.
Sadly, we still see the negative from both sides in the form of paramilitary murals. Slowly but surely I hope to see these changing to the far more inspiring ones above. The area has to be commended for the obvious changes taking place. Well done.
Exhibition Gallery
I’m pretty sure I can’t be ar$ed putting all the photos from the Exhibition on here as well as the club site. So here is a link to the gallery, just click on the photo to visit.
Hawk Eye
Phil allowed me to leave the exhibition marquee for a few minutes on Sunday and I managed to snap a few quick photos of the Birds of Prey that were on display within the campus grounds. Here are a few shots. Stunning birds, although they look a little bored!
Long Day
It’s been a long day at our club exhibition. Met some great people, caught up with some old friends and spent time with a great bunch of chaps, even those who give me abuse about blogging! 🙂
It was a wet day but by mid afternoon we had a pretty good crowd moving through the marquee. Some other other interesting events taking place too. This was my first time watching a Pig Race!
Some great looking Beagles
The pig race, Makin Bacon won!
The gardens
The gold star of the day goes to John who stood out in the rain under a tree passing out cards and getting folk to venture into the marquee to see the trees. A bit of a grim reaper 🙂
Brendan posing
and I have absolutely no idea what these two plonkers are doing!!
Tight Squeeze!
Managed to transport a few trees to the Club exhibition tonight.
All ready for tomorrow.
Hoping to post live from the show tomorrow via mobile, I can only hope that the rain has run out by then!!
Sunday Walk
Yesterday’s walk in the sunshine was along the coast at Belfast Lough. The dogs were bouncing around in the water which was about the only thing to make ripples on a day were it resembled a Mill Pond.
Loved this little sail boat that kept pace with us for a few miles.
Smudge cooling down.
A strange shark with a fin shaped like an elbow!
Walking buddies.
Herron on the rocks.
Pretty in yellow.
Did Anyone Even Notice?
Yesterday was the first day since November that I haven’t posted on my blog. I was starting to feel like I was being controlled by OCD [Osessive Compulsive Disorder] I must admit that last night, when I returned from our Club meeting, I felt drawn to the computer to add a post 🙂
Blogging really is an addiction albeit a positive one. I was surprised at just how many hits I still got on the blog without even posting. I have learned that tagging is a massive part of blogging, getting all those bonsai related words out there for the search engines to find.
You may have to put up with a few more quiet days from me on here. It’s looking like shoulder surgery for me within the next few weeks. This will put a major cramp on my keyboard work for a while and even my photography. I feel it’s going to be a long Summer. At least I can still water trees one handed!
PS: Never find your planned surgery on Youtube, BIG MISTAKE!!
Dangerous Tree Stump!
Spotted this path closed off on a walk at the weekend!
All sorts of images jumped to mind 🙂
However I’m not sure this was the right stump being referred too.
Portaferry in the Sun
Needless to say, these photos were taken a few weeks back during our heat wave 🙂
A day out with some family saw us visit Portaferry on the Ards Peninsula.
Daisy Lane
Water evaporating off the beach, a rare site in Northern Ireland 🙂
Not for me!
The Narrows
Blackthorn
Old World War 2 Observation post at the tip of the Peninsula, built to watch out for German Bombers on their way to bomb Belfast Docks.
Family enjoying the sunshine
Not the only ones enjoying the sun.
Audley’s castle on the other side of the Lough. One of the sites used in Northern Ireland to film the series, Game of Thrones.
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