Before Christmas I joined a group of friends at a Christmas party and I got into a conversation with a young lady who lives up the mountain near Drumshanbo. She’s lived in the same area all her life and has watched the slow changes occurring as forestry became more prevalent over the last twenty years. [...]
For the last four weeks we have experienced amazing weather for Irish standards. Everything frozen and white. The trees looked so beautiful. It brought many hardships with it, and many of us had to change the way we usually did things. For us on the farm, filling water for the cattle (and for neighbour’s cattle) [...]
I A whirl of white as the branches and twigs grow a coat of frozen snow. Alder twigs, seed long since dispersed, making lovely patterns in the snow. But the ground feeding birds need hedges and trees to find their food. ……. And little patches of wildness…..
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