I think that’s cheating

Spot the alligator

State parks are really glorious things

Tropical holloway, of sorts

Flow

'The biggest demand on our electricity system right now is from data centres, with their energy use growing by a whopping 531% between 2015 to 2024. Ireland is currently home to approximately 121 data centres with numerous others are at various stages of the planning and construction processes...'

These foolish ducklings in the park know nothing of the Guardian’s 100 Best Novels list. YET THEY GO ON LIVING REGARDLESS.

🥕 This Groundhog has been stealing a Farmer's crops for years and eats them right in front of his camera @depressionlesss

Hudsonian whimbrels wittering to each other across a very high tide in the marsh, soon to leave north I imagine

. in this world one knows neither the beginning nor the end the waves of the ocean come from offshore and go away -Monk Shinkei (tr. Hiroaki Sato)

Unusually for us, a live horseshoe crab in the tide

Five in the afternoon, light breeze, seventy five degrees, heaven to hear the waves

Thrilled to be returning to Irish World Heritage Centre to launch Eva Gore-Booth: Irish Radical Poet, Rebel & Reformer @manchesterup.bsky.social Apt to launch in the city Eva chose as her home. If you’re in Manchester 19 June drop by. Tickets free booking link👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eva-gore-b...

Our lovely horse.

Given his malign role in relation to the island of Ireland in context of the border, it would be interesting to read an Irish newspaper dig into this

I heard just now that Clutag Press will shortly come to a close, and with it Archipelago an end. Understandable as its presiding genius, Andrew McNeillie, will be eighty. But I never had such friends as I met through it, and never such a sense of home, and nowhere else such encouragement. Ach.

‘All over England there are standing stones, petrified forms of men who hoped to rule.. Count them and - by a peculiar enchantment - you never get the same number twice. The destruction goes beyond counting. It goes beyond what the pen can record.’ Mantel, The Mirror and the Light

Lists, lists, but Milkman should be there, it will grow and last. And Wolf Hall is magnificent, but as a meditation on England as a site of sublimated terror, The Mirror and the Light is superior.

My review of Ruth McKee’s Wild Iris, a powerful and original read. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

Four times I went to the Wu-t’ai mountains, seeking visions. Five times the clouds were full of light . . . What is it? What is it? . . . The wind at the end of the world blows . . . When the egret is blind, the fish swim by. -Chang Shang-yin, from Eliot Weinberger’s “In the Wu-tai Mountains”

i am so sad and everything is beautiful. Adrift by Mark Nepo

If you happen to be in Paris on the evening of June 16th, details to come… www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en-ce-moment...

Echinacea

First hummingbird, you forget how they fly like a seahorse, paused standing up to check us out and off. The salvia is blooming so there are reasons to stay. Such great, unlikely travelers.

Hi

Calling @oneillsb.bsky.social

Got distracted doing the watering

What a morning, and a wood thrush in there, pure sound

Toughest animal to see that you’ve seen in the wild? For me probably this serval, cats which aren’t super outgoing.

Jack Yeats

Just thought I’d let you know one of my excellent students has written her class project on ‘Miniature Soundscapes in Leonard and Hungry Paul’, @ronanhession.bsky.social, about the variety of frequencies the characters tune into and observe. So your musical days continue. They all loved the book.

I walked home from a memorial and watched a red-tailed hawk quarter the falling streets as I came downhill, eventually dropping away until it was a high line, leaving

I have an essay in the latest Archipelago on my visit last summer to Jutland to see the landscapes of Heaney’s bog body poems, the beginning of which is below. www.clutagpress.com/product/arch...

71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps. Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap

Chlorophyllia

County Kerry, Ireland, 1952, photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Malin Head 5k start/finish line.

Fukuōji Kazuhiko (Japanese Artist, born 1953) "Starlight Street at Night", 1990. Ink and Color on Paper, 46 × 61 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Wind surfers

I will never live so far from the sea again

Amateur Ackroyd

Set your controls for the heart of the sun

A tale of years now I see it