Yes! Above is the River Bandon which empties into Kinsale Harbor. The cloud, which Irish broadcasters might call "fierce" actually was - gum ball sized hail stones pelted us minutes before the picture was taken. Here we are planting birch, alder, and hazel in Michael's field (center right, blue attire). The field was occupied by British forces in 1621, it being the highest point for some distance. From it, they took stock of both Irish and Spanish positions, both of whom they routed. The Battle of Kinsale set Irish independence back decades if not centuries.
Asked if the plastic, which controls competition, would starve the new tree of water, I was kindly informed, "what?" Evidently 'drought' or anything resembling it is still something a non-traveler has only heard of, and maybe not even that. Suddenly for me, my lifetime in Seattle felt dusty.
This is Paul, our organic gardening instructor, demonstrating the function of a draw knife and his neat jig. He and two friends felled, hauled, and milled the trees/boards used in the house behind us. Timber framed houses are spoken of as an anomaly here, their virtues touted (year-round constructability, easy to insulate well, flexibility in design...). I think even the brick houses in the PNW are timber framed. I knew I loved wood. Save the damn forests! Gotta love steep undevelopable, sprawl-stopping slopes. While we are on the subject, if Washington state, with it's tall mountains and deep valleys, if it were stretched flat, how big would it be? And when we refer to it's area in square miles, are we being true? Does not the angled land get discounted or mismeasured? Does it really rank behind South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas? And how does it compare to Texas?
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