Some views of Ireland

Perhaps it should not surprise me that it has been harder than hoped to transmit our adventures.  At this point we have figured out how to put iPhone photos into email and on Flickr.  If you have not been emailed sorry but one finger writing is very slooow.  MAYBE a computer with full keyboard will appear before our return.

We are halfway through our trip, (!), and only now have we experienced some rain. For we Puget Sound mossbacks, it is actually very welcome.  Ireland doesn't do heat.  

During our week here in Killorglin, (Co. Kerry) we are delving into family history. Some is more general, such as the Kerry Bog Village museum; I've added a link and a few photos.  The authentic small cottages sparely and genuinely furnished including their stockpile of peat conveys their meager life stories  in ways words do not.

The other part of our stay in Killorglin has been surprising beyond expectation.  Janet's goal of learning what she could of  old family ties here has already lead to meeting several folk including one cousin and more contacts expected.

Again, here are a few Ireland Flickr photos (And a few bee photos that I haven't figured out how to separate out.)

Images without photographs

We are in Ireland, or perhaps more acurately, we are ON Ireland.  While I have used our camera for taking MANY PHOTOS, their capture is not complete and as images they are not going willingly, are  in the grips of electronic limbo, defeating my pre-travel assumptions that I could upload, edit, and publish them in relative ease.  Alas, dear reader, this is not the current case.  You can trust that the setting is amazing and the getting here has been at times unnerving.  For one thing, the roads of this country are not made for ignorant foreigners and oversized cars.  Not only are these narrow fast roads, we are driving right hand drive cars with a left hand stick shift.  And THIS is a complication we at least in part were expecting.

When I started this post, from the library in Dingle, Janet's Irish class was closing for the day.  Now, hours later in the wee hours, unable to sleep because of unusually warm weather and a restless mind, I write without photos aside from knowing that I pointed a camera, framed an image and clicked. For now I will continue to try to figure out how to share many photos, in time I may content myself with just a few.

Glen and Janet
Ballyferriter on the Dingle Peninsula,
County Kerry, Ireland.

Photo Sharing

Ahh, the life of a wanna-be blogger.  Managed to delete an entire post, complete with some links.  We leave soon, and the intent of this blog is to reduce computer time IN Ireland, send back some photos.  Each of the following links has a few photos I've already uploaded.  (Now as long as I keep track of passwords...)

I am still wavering between three photo sharing systems, (four, counting the blog itself).  Opinions??

Flickr

Picasa

Panoramio

Cheers,

Glen