Ireland / Scotland # 23-25 ~ unexpected surprises

Irish landscape ~ Dunlewey, Donegal, Ireland • click to embiggen
Irish landscape / Benbulben Mountain ~ Cashelgarron, Co. Sligo, Ireland Ireland • click to embiggen
sheep overlooking Atlantic Ocean ~ near Glencolmcille, Donegal, Ireland • click to embiggen

While in Ireland, I encountered a number of unexpected surprises. Prominent amongst them were a handful of not-what-I-thought Ireland would look like landscapes. Most notable in that surprise category are the top 2 landscape pictures in this entry.

Each of those landscapes truly messed with my (apparently) cliched expectations of what I would see, landscape wise, in Ireland. You probably know what I mean - green, green and more green. Not that green, green and more green was not in evidence. In some parts of Ireland that we passed through on our drive from Dublin to our chosen designation - County Donegal - were indeed green, green and more green.

However, large swaths of County Donegal featured quite bit of brown / dirty green - if not more than actual green - and rugged stone hills / mountains. A landscape which I found to be very much to my liking. In fact, a landscape in which I would be happy to live for the rest of my life.

As for the sheep in the bottom picture, all I can write is, what a life.

FYI, I have changed the Landscapist theme once again. The simple reason for the change is that the previous theme mangled posts - image and text alignment - on post made prior to the implementation of that theme. This change represents my last attempt at salvaging a working relationship with the 'old' Squarespace platform.

As of this entry, the resize thing is working. This is a good thing because: 1. I can control the size of the popup window, and, 2. the resize function creates a main page thumbnail image without resizing or messing with the original popup sized file. Not so the previous workaround method which resized the original image resulting in a significant loss of image sharpness for the popup image.

If the resize function continues to work, this is the theme / format I will stick with for now. Although I am experimenting with the new Squarespace platform which allows me to have a bodies-of-work gallery website together with a blog. That platform and theme has a much cleaner look than this platform and theme. So, if I like how the new one functions, I will change to that platform and theme in the near future.