Beautiful noise!

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When do you wake up to the sound of hammering and think… “What a beautiful sound”? – The morning the men finally come to repair the muddy hole right outside your front door after a year and a half waiting! … Click to view

Politics

Lisbon, Portugal 2005 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

“I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. ‘I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.’ ‘I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.’ ‘Hey, wait a minute, there’s one guy … Click to view

Time

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein                             Barcelona, 2011 Picture by Joey Cleary

On the rocks

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“All art is but imitation of nature.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca                             Sant Pol de Mar, 2010 Picture by Joey Cleary

Sunshine

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Moving from Ireland to Spain, one of the biggest changes is the abundance of sunshine. Barcelona sees an average of 2500-2700 hours of sunshine per year, which works out at about seven hours every single day! I feel very lucky! … Click to view

Pure tranquility

Co. Mayo, Ireland 2006 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand. For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. – “The Stolen Child” by William Butler Yeats Co. Mayo, Ireland 2006 … Click to view

Shattered

Sagres, Portugal 2005 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

Time to pick up the pieces and start again…                                         Sagres, Portugal 2005 Picture by Joey Cleary

Sculpture

Barcelona, 2006 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” – George Orwell Barcelona, 2006 Picture by Joey Cleary

Independence!

Child with balloon,  London 2004 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

What a pity we usually don’t remember that first moment when we realised that we were free to go where we choose!                       Child with balloon – London 2004 Picture … Click to view

Reyes Magos

Cabalgata de Reyes, Val de Nuria 2010 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

The “Reyes Magos” or three kings, who traditionally bring Christmas gifts to the children of Spain on the night of January 5th, arriving in style at the ski resort of Vall de Nuria in a procession of torch bearing skiers. … Click to view

White

Val de Nuria 2010 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where … Click to view