saturday critters

I believe these are white turkeys which I have never seen before, they were just walking around.  Looks like they were following the leader.:)

linking to Eileen's viewingnaturewitheileen

bowers walk

from the archives

Ballinrobe 2014

recycled frosty

saw him up at the recycle station the last time I was up there.  He's a little early but I'm sure he'll hang around. :)

signs2

In Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set. Since 2016, the annual licence fee is €160. Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service. The bulk of the fee is used to fund Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the state broadcaster.  Lately there is talk about modifying the licence to cover other devices like your computer.  We don't have a tv so we don't require a licence.

to see more signs, visit Tom the backroadstraveller

red

the red car caught my eye when I was walking by Dungloe Lough a couple of weeks ago.  

wet days ahead

another rainy day with  the remnants of Hurricane Epsilon heading our way.  It is expected on Tuesday night, bringing strong winds and rain, but the full force of it will hit on Wednesday.  When it rains it pours.  Our trees are slow showing their colours but after the storm this tree might have no leaves left on it.

Sweeney's Hotel

was built in the 1850s.  Its founder. Johndie Sweeney, died in 1909 aged 100. His family played an important part in the history of Dungloe, in the Land League and the later struggles for independence, as well as being successful in a range of businesses. 

Info courtesy of the Dungloe Heritage Trail brochure.

The hotel was sold recently and is in the process of being renovated.  Earlier this year, the windows were replaced with new ones.  They just started working on the hotel recently putting up the scaffolding and screening.

yesterday I received a nice surprise package in the mail from a blogger friend.  It was nice of her to send this.   A bookmark with different language spellings for the word book, a postcard of her town, a writing pen, a coaster with the Brunswick Lion, the best-known landmark in the German city of Braunschweig (Brunswick) and a good luck litte pig.  Very nice indeed! :)  Thanks Iris.