The Welcoming Bog Leenane

The Welcoming Bog LeenaneIn the warm glow of an autumn evening the usually perceived rugged and inhospitable peatand sheds its reputation to offer something deeply inviting. The evening sun blankets the bog in a warm, welcoming amber that glows against the cool tranquility of a vast blue sky and "a savage beauty" simply becomes a beauty.

From the rough of a windswept narrow road on the Derryinver Peninsula

Connemara surrounded by lake fog early on a spring morning

The Apple Market in Covent Garden

As the afternoon sun silhouettes the formidable peak of Cruach Mhór against a heavy

white shroud

the world knows the flat horizon of the iconic "star child" of Yeats Country

there is no heraldry here

The stunning view of the Crohy coastline and Donegal landscape from Crohy Head on a lovely but windy summer day

A beautiful sunset from a silhouetted Ross Beach in Connemara as the sun sets behind Inishbofin Island

Connemara on a sunny autumn afternoon

as monuments to the cold and barren winter awake to greet the warmth and fertility of spring

A twilight scene that captures the stark contrast of colours as day gives way to night