A pigeon perched on the fence at the edge of our housing development. He gave me a quizzical look, then sodded off 🙂

This relatively new housing development in #Maynooth was built on what was an old meadow, it seems some of the wild flowers survived the transition, like these beautiful cowslips now growing next to a footpath! #Bloomscrolling

These nicely textured purpose and white star-shaped tulips growing in one of the flower beds at the harbour opposite #Maynooth railway station are really eye-catching! #Bloomscrolling

Pointed white tulips at the front of our housing development. #Maynooth #Bloomscrollong

Very traditional red Tulips brightening up suburbia. #Bloomscrolling #Maynooth

My first dandelion seed head of the year! It's stunning how many times the dandelions flower, seed, flower again, seed again … each summer. This early seed head was growing in a field at the very edge of #Maynooth suburbia. #Bloomscrolling

Dandelions in full bloom in a field at the very edge of suburbia in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A young car owner had a little fun with the Suzuki logo on their little car 🙂

Lovely little Black Medick flowers at the bottom of Mullen Bridge along the #RoyalCanal in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Let's Talk Photo 151 "My ‘Forest Flowers’ Series" with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/ltp151

I've just published a major update to the open source NodeJS module I wrote to help me turn URLs into pretty links for the Let's Talk Apple & Security Bits show notes. bartificer.github.io/linkify/

These little Ivy-leaved Toadflaxes really can grow in just about any wall, here they're brightening the pedestrian arch at Jackson's Bridge on the #RoyalCanal towpath west of #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Tulips in suburbia! #Maynooth #Bloomscrolling

Slowly crossing the campus — a slug inching their way across a footpath in front of Logic House in @maynoothuniversity.ie 🐌

A big bumblebee feeding on a dandelion. #Bloomscrolling

An #IrishRail InterCity accelerating away from #Maynooth along the #RoyalCanal en-route to Sligo on an April afternoon. #BlackAndWhite

We’ve got your “rah rah go to Macstock”, we’ve got hearing aids and a less expensive display from ViewSonic, we have a little @jasonhowell.bsky.social , and we round it all out with Security Bits with @bartb.ie. Fun for the whole family. www.podfeet.com/blog/2026/04... #20YearsOfPodcasting

Want to know what mayhem the bad actors have been about for the last fortnight? Find @bartb.ie’s fabulous Security Bits shownotes here: www.podfeet.com/blog/2026/04... #CyberSecurity

Nature loves fractals! Cracks in very fine-grained dried silt on a construction site.

In this very fun installment of PBS, @bartb.ie teaches us how to use CSS “variables”, which aren't actually variables (they're custom properties). Theyallow you to take advantage of Bootstrap to style web pages, but make the look and feel all your own. pbs.bartificer.net/pbs182 #Programming #CSS

The Ivy-leaved Toadflax is starting to sprout out of the seams in the old stone walls all around #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Absolutely beautiful Spotted Deadnettles in a flower bed maintained by the wonderful volunteers in the #Maynooth Tidy Towns's committee at the bottom of Bond Bridge. #Bloomscrolling

White Tulips in front of Stoyte House in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth between the April showers! #Bloomscrolling

Yellow meets yellow — a yellow-fronted #IrishRail Commuter train leaving #Maynooth along the banks of the #RoyalCanal passes a cluster of yellow Dandelions. #Bloomscrolling

Garlic Mustard in bloom along the Kilcock road out of #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

The first tiny little Fairy Foxgloves I've spotted this year — in this case, growing along the old stone wall between the top of Main St. and Tesco in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Pure yellow tulips in front of Loftus Hall in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Bluebells under the trees in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Little ATR 72-600 EI-GPO passing over Maynooth through a lovely blue sky as it approached Dublin as Aer Lingus Regional flight EA3931 from Newquay on Easter Monday evening.

Stunning pink Tulips with low morning sun shining through their petals along the Kilcock road in #Maynooth. The residents along this street do such a nice job of adding a splash of colour to grass verge in front of the houses! #Bloomscrolling

I've finished editing and sharing a series of photos showcasing spring flowers in the woods in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. I really like how they came out, and I hope you notice they're a little different to typical flower macros. Let me explain why … glass.photo/bbusschots/series...

These tiny little yellowy-green Opposite-leaved Golden-Saxifrage flowers are easy to miss, but I love the unusual texture they give our woodlands. I snapped these along one of the woodland trails in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling P.S., was glad I wore my trusty Merrell hiking shoes! 🙂

These lovely yellow Lesser Celandines are carpeting the clear areas under the trees along the trails in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth ATM. The more showy blue & white carpets of Bluebells & wild garlic that will follow get all the attention, but I love these little yellow suns 🙂 #Bloomscolling

Wild violets on the forest floor along a woodland trail in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. These tiny little gems are easy to overlook, but they are so pretty with their intricate little details! #Bloomscrolling

Bluebells starting to bloom along one of the woodlands trials in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Inspired by this month's category I stretched out my walk today to spend some time on the woodland trial in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. Lots of stuff for me to sort through and edit over the next few days, but these little primroses along the path were instant keepers! #Bloomscrolling

A portrait of a Grey Heron on the #RoyalCanal near #Maynooth.

Just in time for #StormDave, the circus comes to town! (It survives fine 🙂) #Maynooth

Let's Talk Apple 151, the show for March 2026 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta151 The main stories are Apple's 26.4 OS updates, the new AirPods Max 2, the new Apple Business service, and of course Apple's 50th birthday! 🎂 🎉

Some cowslips hiding between the grass at the bottom of the playing fields in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. You can see hints of both the tall avenues running along the edges of the playing fields, and the college chapel in the background. #Bloomscrolling

. @contextmachine.bsky.social — great to hear you guys talk about Kagi, I've been a paid user for years, and it rocks! The ability to choose my own data cards, and, to teach Kagi what sites I NEVER want to see in my results, and which I love, are game-changers! It's MY search engine!

The Daffodils are getting ready to hand the baton to the Tulips behind! #Bloomscrolling

Spotted my first bluebells of the year in Carton House near #Maynooth. As an added bonus there are some yellow primroses in bloom in the background! #Bloomscrolling

It's starting to look a lot like spring on the lawns in front of Carton House near #Maynooth as the very first little daisies pop up between the grass! #Bloomscrolling

Pink "bluebells " growing along the towpath at the Glenroyal in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

The first cowslips I've seen this year, in this case on the wooded bank behind the bus stop as the Glenroyal in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

It's amazing how often I use large language models to help me with my language use when writing — they're so good here in their home turf 🙂

Tulips getting ready to open at Stoyte House in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A fun idea for #Apple50 — www.cultofmac.com/news/our-fi... The first Mac I used day-to-day was one of the less remembered CRT eMacs (basically bigger opaque white versions of the original iMac design for education) in the postgrad lab, I fell in love enough to BYOKBDM with the very first MacMini.

A carpet of white Anemones growing under the big trees in the Junior Gardens in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling