Chimney Pots and Cloudy Skies

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Dublin Rooftop, April 2010

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Sea View

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Window in the boundary fence of a very (VERY) nice looking property on the cliff edge in Howth, overlooking Ireland's Eye. I don't know who lives here, but they had a vintage gold Rolls Royce in the driveway.
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More windows and doors can be seen here.

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Bicycle Hire

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Bicycle hire? There? Seriously?

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If you say so...

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Taken on the banks of the River Boyne, Newgrange, Ireland. Click to enlarge.

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A wildflower bouquet

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Israel is in its glory in winter and spring as the winter rains bring forth a riot of color from formerly brown dry fields. Hard to imagine that this field on a moshav not far from me was ever brown and dry, isn't it?
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Looking at this kaleidoscope of nature's bounty I couldn't help but want to take it home, a wildflower bouquet* of my own.

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So tomorrow's not a work day...

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So tomorrow, Sunday, starts a new work week here in Israel. For everyone except me that is. For me, it's my first day on the four week furlough they agreed to give me (small comfort, and that only after I called them out for really being shits about the whole 7 days notice no severance thing) to give me a bit of breathing space to get my life in some form of order before they cut me off - sort of a strange limbo - laid off, but still having to check my work e-mail for news and developments (questions about things I've transferred, responses from those who are helping me investigate the unlikely possibility of a lateral move, whatever...).
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Whatever it is, it's not work. Well not unless you count having to update my resume, start making calls and getting meetings with all those people I need to talk to about finding a new job, catch up on those doctor's appointments I've been putting off, chauffeur the kids around, do that laundry, and kick the photography peddling into a higher gear.
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Whatever this new reality turns out to be, it starts tomorrow morning.
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Wish me luck.
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Cloudy skies over Newgrange

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It is an unbelievable feeling to stand at Newgrange in Ireland's Boyne Valley, knowing that what you are seeing has not changed since it was constructed over 5,000 years ago. This ancient temple, built by a stone age farming community to mark the coming of the winter solstice, is 500 years older than the Pyramids and 1,000 years older than Stonehenge - and in all that time, with all of Ireland's rain, pouring down on the day of our visit as well, the roof has never leaked.
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Imagine, standing inside a room that was already ancient when the Egyptians first began building the Pyramids, that was already lost to antiquity before the first great Gothic cathedral pointed its spire to the heavens. It's almost too much to comprehend, too much to put into words.
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And right across from the ancient, the newest of the new. Lambs. Dozens of them, cavorting over some of the greenest fields I have ever seen.
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