Greetings All, from the Emerald Isle. Jeanne Marie and I have not been back to the Olde Sodde since 2017 so we were totally ready for this trip. We connected through Charlotte from St Louis, mainly because the loads looked best, but the flight operated so early. It departed Charlotte to Dublin at 4 PM, arriving at 4:40 AM Dublin time. I was dreading a 3 hour wait for the rental car counter to open but we were delira and excira to see them all fully staffed and we and a cheerful lady named Mary had us on the road to Glendalough by 6. We would only have a few hours there but it was all we needed to sink down into Ireland's magic.

The upper lake was a perfect mirror so I did make a few exposures.

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And as if to leave no doubt that we were not in Kansas anymore, just as we were leaving the upper lake to go down to the monastery, two ladies walked out, dropped their robes down to their bathing suits, and waded right in up to their necks. The air temp was 52 degrees.

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On the way down to the monastery a herd of deer crossed our path. 

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I know the shots I’m posting look like the ones from the last four trips but I love shooting here. And we didn’t really have time to look for new compositions. There were certainly fewer people to worry about shooting around. By 10 we were on our way through the Wicklow Mountains to Cashel where we would spend our first night.

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