Photo taken at the Omey Races. When the tide is out, they race on the beach. When the tide comes back in the entire area is cleared and Omey is an island again. Connemara. #Ireland #TidesOutTuesday #RockinTuesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #AnimalArtTuesday #WildAtlanticWay

Christmas present for a cat lover. Glad to be done with those little squares. #knitting #knitsky #SweaterWeather

A very blue boat. Roundstone. Connemara. #Ireland #ColorADay #CyanTue #BlueTue #WildAtlanticWay #Photography #EastCoastKin #SensoryArt #Water

"Mit Stammbaum" (With Pedigree). Sculpture by Angela Eberhard. Fun little figurine and fits the #ColorADay #PinkMon prompt. #Photography #EastCoastKin

One more for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision. All Creatures Great and Small. #photography #animals

‪ #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #shadesofgrey. I give you greylag geese in the grey fog on a grey day. It's all a bit grey in grey, but hey! You were asking for it, right? #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #NovemberWeather #grey #Ireland

I love children's art at the local shows, always so unexpected! Here one of my all time favourites: Leonard Bernstein's ghost conducting Berlioz' Sinfonie Fantastique (my interpretation, others may see something else). Fit's today's #NightmareNov brief #grotesque to a tee. #ArtYear #Photography

Knitted earlier this year. Incredibly fluffy alpaca sweater. It's the nearest to #floof I've been doing lately. #Handspun. #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky #Knitting #SweaterWeather #Alpaca #SustainableFashion

Pony peeking through the trees. #ColorADay #GreenSat #Photography #AnimalPhotography #EastCoastKin #Horses

Another sweater in the making. #WIP #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting #Knitsky #StrandedColourwork #SweaterWeather

@alan678.bsky.social says todays's #BirdoftheDay theme is #Swans. Here are some swans in their natural habitat. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 😁 #photography #EastCoastKin

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision - No kudos for guessing the program. 🙂🙃

The late Queen's daisies. This was a rather splendid daisy patch in the grounds of Hillsborough Castle. Then still HM the Queen's residence in Northern Ireland. #PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #Photography #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling

For #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision. "Highway to Heaven". Actually, it's the Sky Road in Clifden. Close enough. 😁 #Photography #EastCoastKin #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay

I think this will do very well as my contribution to #Stunday this Sunday. It's a very fancy watering place for the carriage horses in the town. #Salzburg #Photography #EastCoastKin

Evening on the Connemara coast. With Connemara Pony. #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening #Photography #Horses

A bit of fun with colourwork. Anatolian, Faroese, Fair Isle and Latvian (braid) patterns all cobbled together for one glorious Christmas sweater. Here it's still on the needles. Pics of finished sweater to follow. #ShowMeYourKnits #knitting #knitsky #StrandedColorwork #SweaterWeather

Schloss Nymphenburg. Munich. Moody evening. #PalacesAndGardens #WeatherAndMoods #Photography #Landscape #Munich #EastCoastKin

Ashford Castle on the shore of Lough Corrib on a crisp winter day. #PalacesAndGardens #WeatherAndMood #Ireland #Landscape #EastCoastKin

Last touches done and I'm wearing it. Still not blocked. That will even out the stitches a bit whenever it happens. Probably when it needs a wash. Surprisingly soft too! But then, I'm practically impervious to the scratchiness of wool on skin. #Knitsky #Knitting #Handspun #SensoryArt #Patterns

You can't really have a #WeekRforRock in the #AlphabetChallenge without a picture of the Burren coast. Black Head Lighthouse. Co Clare. #Ireland. #PhotographersOfBluesky #Landscape #Stunday #WildAtlanticWay #Lighthouse #EastCoastKin

Waistcoat made from the fleece of local sheep. All the processing from raw fleece to finished garment done by hand. #ShowMeYourKnits #cabled #IrishWool #Knitsky #Knitting #AranSweater #SustainableFashion #handspun #FiberArt

A one-fleece-jumper. Wool is handspun from a single (local) fleece. #ShowMeYourKnits #cabled #IrishWool #Knitsky #Knitting #AranSweater #SustainableFashion

Most of the peaks are rocks. Two are ears. On top of Diamond Hill. #Connemara National Park. #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #Connemara #Husky #Dogs #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Landscape #EastCoastKin

When I first went out it was a glorious double rainbow, by the time I got around to taking a picture this is all that was left.

2 Canada geese photographed in Germany. By the looks of it they're trying to figure out how to get back home and aren't sure which way to go. 😂 #BirdOfTheDay - Pairs Of The Same Bird #Pair #DailyDouble #TwosDay #Photography #EastCoastKin

This long dead oak with a few crows perching on its branches is just perfect for today's #Spooktober prompt #trees.

One of my favourite photos taken on a fabulous day which I enjoyed lying in the grass in the field out back. #Photography #AnimalArtTuesday #Horses #Nature #Landscape

There's a lot of rock on display at the Cliffs of Moher. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #nature #Landscape

The ruin of Moore Hall. #31DaysOfHalloween #spooky #ruin #PhotographersOfBluesky

Seagull on a rock. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock

For #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet - Interior of a 'The Quiet Man' tribute cottage. It was very quiet in there. And bit creepy. Almost #spooky. #31DaysOfHalloween #SensoryArt

I rarely take pictures inside, but I had to take one of this. #Inside Dublin Airport. Several years ago. #BlueSkyArtShow

I saw a murder! A murder of crows. Or as @alan678.bsky.social requests for the day a #flock for #BirdOfTheDay.

Probably the most photographed spot on the road from Maam Cross to Clifden. #Connemara. #Ireland #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #EastCoastKin #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #LandscapePhotography

The only ICE voters are likely to encounter in this polling station is ICE CREAM! ❤️😂☘️🇮🇪

My favourite comfort food: Potato Salad. I put peas and apples in mine. What do you put in yours? #FoodOnFriday #ComfortFood

Can't have today's photo prompt of #PalacesandGardens #Facade without a picture of the Doge's Palace in Venice. #Venice ##PhotographersOfBlueSky

Front door of what was Danaher's house in "The Quiet Man" (1952). Kept beautifully for the tourists. Cong, County Mayo, Ireland. #adoorableThursday #FilmingLocation #Ireland #Photography

The sheep is keeping an eye on what's happening with his wool. #Woolcraft #SelfSufficient #Wool

Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace. Very old photo, 1980s and pre-digital. It was still Leningrad and the USSR back then. And the facade was really painted in these striking red and yellow colours. Looked crazy even in the crazy 80s. 😂 #PalacesandGardens #Facade #PhotographersOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze

Years ago I visited an exhibition of enchanting little ceramic sculptures by artist Angela Eberhard. This one is called "Herzdame". Old photo. I'll post more pics as the fit a given day's photo prompt. #ColorADay #RedWed #WackyWednesdayArt #ArtYear #Photography

Autumn Window #WindowsOnWednesday #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #AutumnColours #ColorADay #RedWed

One of the quietest places I know. Máméan in Connemara. #RockingTuesday #WeekQforQuiet #Landscape #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #Ireland

Not really a great pic, but it fits the #BirdOfTheDay #Green brief for today. Both some green plumage and some greenery surrounding the bird(s). Bonus, it's Irish green. Taken in the grounds of Ashford Castle. At the spot where Maureen O'Hara speaks Irish into the priest's ear in 'The Quiet Man'.

Connemara Ponies and their foals at the bottom of the field. #AnimalArtTuesday #AnimalPhotography #Landscape #PhotographersOfBluesky #Ireland

Early morning peace and quiet. 2 foals resting in the grass before the day's shenanigans. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet #PhotographersOfBlueSky #AnimalPhotography #ConnemaraPonies #Ireland

The Cliffs of Moher #BlueSkyArtShow #vertical #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #Landscape

Does this count for #BirdOfTheDay #Reflection? It's a bird (I think it may be a seagull, but not sure), and it's definitely a reflection. Tbh, I never noticed the bird until after I'd taken the picture. #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Ireland #TheWildAtlanticWay #Connemara #Landscape

Cygnet in a local turlough. Taken with a very basic camera at a considerable distance. #BirdoftheDay #Reflection #PhotographersOfBluesky #Birds