Weekly Photo Challenge : Local

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Dublin, Ireland, local, north side, North Strand, photography, photos, Weekly Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge : Local

I love living where I do: the people are great, the area a bit messy but friendly and filled with creativity. The streets dirty but beautiful and the view often spectacular if very urban.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Earth

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Annesley Bridge, Dublin, Earth, Ireland, North Strand, photography, photos, Weekly Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge – Earth

Earth, one word that describes not only the planet we live on but also the very ground we walk on. As a city dweller earth is not something I see a lot of, cemented pavements and tarmac roads make up most of the surfaces that I walk, cycle or drive on. Maybe that is why parks and gardens are so vital to city life, we need to be reminded that just below the surface is the earth we are part of.

just below the surface – earth in Dublin, the Tolka from Annesley Bridge on North Strand

late night encounters

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100 Muses, Dragana Jurisic, Dublin, Ireland, late night encounter, North Strand, photography, photos

late night on North Strand

I was teaching late last night so I decided to drop in Dragana and see how her wonderful project #100Muses is coming along, and I have to say it is looking stunning. I brought a bottle of wine and we sat and chatted until very late into the night.

It was close to 2am when I left and as I wandered down the nearly deserted North Strand I couldn’t help but feel very grateful for the place that I live in. The moon was nearly full and illuminated the sleeping world around me.

I was close to home when I heard my name being called and as I turned around someone I know was on her bike right behind me. It was such an odd place and time to meet, but I hadn’t seen her in a while and we chatted for a while, as if it were mid-afternoon, not well past midnight.

After a hug and a promise to meet for coffee, she cycled off into the night and wandered the few hundred meters home alone, a smile on my face loving my late night encounter.