A fresh new Dog-rose covered in Irish summer rain 🙂 #Bloomscrolling

This little insect has picked a very sweet-smelling flower to rest on — freshly flowering honeysuckle! #Bloomscrolling

Glass.photo have a relatively new logo they're rightly very proud of, and, they themselves have been having fun with lots of cool variants, but now they've opened it up to the community, asking us to recreate the logo in our everyday lives. Inspiration struck for me while making a salad!

Nature finds a way! Some very determined Ivy-leaved Toadflax squeezing out of a tiny crack in a wall in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

Big Boy, the largest, still working, steam locomotive in the world passed through Grand Island, NE the other day. Beautiful train.

Let's Talk Apple 153, the show for May 2026 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta153 There are just three main stories — an unexpected turn in the Apple -v- Epic case, a reported deal between Apple & Intel, and Apple's annual accessibility announcements.

I don't know what I caught these two snails doing, but it's not something I've seen them do before. Guessing slow-motion fighting or slow-motion baby making‽

Nailed it, absolutely naked it! It’s not useless, the apocalypse, the end of work, or the key to “abundance”. It’s the next printing press, steam engine, radio, TV, internet … LOTS of change is coming, some bad, some good, and the transition will get “interesting”.

A found Irish Tricolour — this reflector caught my eye as I crossed the road, a vivid Irish flag hiding in a sea of tarmacadam 🙂🇮🇪

To my somewhat colour blind eyes these "Red Clover" blooms look more pink than red, but regardless, with their trefoil leaves they really brighten up Irish grass verges each summer 🙂 #Bloomscrolling

The wild geraniums know as "Herb Robert" are among my favourite Irish wild flowers — their powdery pink petals are just spectacular! They also mange to grow in the most hostile places, like in the seams of stone walls! #Bloomscrolling

My full series of photos from the #RPSI "Midlander" special #trains on the 17th of May. The two Dublin - Maynooth - Dublin runs were pulled expertly restored steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion with its beautiful blue Great Norther Railway of Ireland (GNRi) livery. glass.photo/bbusschots/series...

One last glimpse of former Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRi) 4-4-0 #steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion as it heads for home pulling the last leg of the last "Midlander" #RPSI special #train the weekend before last. The venerable old loco performed flawlessly all day 🙂

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A glimpse of former Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRi) 4-4-0 #steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion working the last leg of the last of the #RPSI "Midlander" special #trains through the trees along the #RoyalCanal between #Maynooth and #Leixlip.

A glimpse of a green #IrishRail Commuter train between all the greenery lining the #RoyalCanal as it passes the cutting between Carton House in #Maynooth, and the 13th lock in #Leixlip.

@bartb.ie and I are back with part B of #Programming By Stealth 184. The first installment was foundational instruction on how to tailor your CSS with SASS. Now, Bart goes through a worked example demonstrating the use of everything we learned in part B. pbs.bartificer.net/pbs184

An #IrishRail InterCity passing Pike Bridge at the Duke's Harbour on the #RoyalCanal at Carton House having just left #Maynooth on the final leg of it's cross-country journey form Sligo to Dublin.

Former Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRi) 4-4-0 #steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion passing "the Duke's Harbour" on the #RoyalCanal at Carton House near #Maynooth with an #RPSI "Midlander" special #trian.

Former Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRi) 4-4-0 #steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion accelerating out of #Maynooth along the banks of the #RoyalCanal working an #RPSI "Midlander" special #train tender-first. The loco's blue livery compliments the yellow rapeseed blooms nicely.

Between the showers — an #IrishRail Commuter service leaving #Maynooth en-route to Dublin along the banks of the #RoyalCanal with rapeseed blooms adding a welcome splash of yellow along the towpath.

Old meets new — I got lucky, and managed to snap a meeting of former Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRi) 4-4-0 #steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion meeting an #IrishRail Commuter train at Matt Goff Bridge along the #RoyalCanal on #Leixlip. #train #RPSI

Former Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRi) 4-4-0 #steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion, skilfully preserved by the volunteers in the #RPSI (Railway Preservation Society of Ireland). #train

Former Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRi) 4-4-0 #steam loco No. 171 Slieve Gullion coasting towards a red signal as it pulls an RPSI "Midlander" special #train towards Blakestown level crossing in #Leixlip en route to Maynooth along the banks of the #RoyalCanal.

An #IrishRail Commuter train climbing the bank up to Blakestown level crossing and the #RoyalCanal 13th lock near #Leixlip on a blustery May afternoon.

A perfect cluster of fresh Rowan (Mountain Ash) blossoms, dripping with Irish rain 🙂

A grey heron perched in a tree with his neck pulled down. Given it was raining I wonder if they were trying to keep warm?

The yellow flag irises have burst into bloom on the #RoyalCanal around #Maynooth, even if our weather has turned unseasonably cold and wet 😕 #Bloomscrolling

A lovely new butterfly sculpture has appears in the tiny little park opposite The Mill Shopping Center in #Maynooth

This perfectly straight contrail cutting through the wispy thin clouds caught my eye on my work to work this morning.

A short-sharp May downpour approaching over the Carton House golf course near #Maynooth. It turned out to be hair rather than rain, so it literally bounced off me 🙂

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Scots Pine cones in the making!

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Contrary to popular belief, not all moths are dark in colour, and not all moths are nocturnal. This impressive Muslin Moth basking in the midday sun reminded me of that quite spectacularly yesterday!

A particularly big and pretty clump of cowslips on the grounds of St. Patrick's College in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A fine example of the grandeur of a Horse Chestnut tree in bloom at the Moyglare entrance to the @maynoothuniversity.ie campus. #Bloomscrolling

Individual Horse Chestnut blooms are intricate, beautiful, and really quite impressive, but Horse Chestnut trees are stunning on a whole different scale too — at this time of year they're covered in foot-tall candelabra-like spikes of those delicate little flowers! #Bloomscrolling

When the hawthorns explode into bloom the entire trees literally get covered in white flowers! #Bloomscrolling

I had so much fun experimenting with different angles and shots in the field of dandelion clocks I found on a recent lunchtime walk that I just can't resist sharing one last shot — this is my most opinionated monochrome conversion from from that session 🙂 #Bloomscrolling

A perfect dandelion clock. #Bloomscrolling

A field of daffodil seed heads in #Maynooth, literally! #Bloomscrolling

The monthly category on glass.photo is "Black & White", so a cloudy day in Carton House near #Maynoot#Maynooth an opportunity flex that photographic muscle on the beautiful Tyrconnell Tower.

The first flush of Dandelion flowers are all going to seed now. There are seed heads on just about every bit of un-mowed grass ATM! #Bloomscrolling

Little blue Germander Speedwell flowers hiding between the grass in the lawn in front of Carton House near #Maynooth. #Bloomscrollig

Every time I think I've seen all the cool Tulips growing around the streets of #Maynooth, I find another one! #Bloomscrolling

A sea of yellow as the rapeseed bursts into bloom along the #RoyalCanal towpath in #Maynooth! #Bloomscrolling

This Chilean Potato Vine along a #Maynooth street is putting on an absolutely amazing show at the moment! Very exotic looking for Ireland 🙂 #Bloomscrolling