Thanks Mike. It was such a beautiful walk out to the lighthouse, it’s about 30 mins walk there, right out into Dublin bay and today there was hardly even a breeze, just a slow and steady stillness by the sea, breathtaking blues and then that roaring red lighthouse
How dare you 😂😂😂
They are actually real, there is a nature park nearby that I walked through afterwards, full of palm trees and fir trees, so funny to see them next to each other 🤭 nature is awesome
I was teasing 🙂 I remember when I was little (in the West Riding) the local council put potted palm trees on top of the bus shelter in the market place. The first winter saw them off.
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Seemingly there are a lot of them around the beaches here, I thought it was a joke but no. It’s the new West coast on the eastern side 😂😂
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Climate change in action. You wait until the Gulf Stream runs cold. The Irish Tundra is on it’s way 🙂
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Jane and Damien, hi from NZ. Saw your chat as I was about to add a comment re the “palm” tree which looks to be our NZ native cabbage tree, Cordyline australis. I know folks over there refer to them as “palm trees”, makes me smile 🙂 I adore the “roaring red lighthouse” Damien – both the building and your description!
Anything exotic looking is a palm tree to us 🙂 The number of people who plant banana trees amazes me. They are just ugly when they’re green and you should see them in the winter. Like they’ve been sprayed with acid.
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It always startles me to suddenly come upon our iconic cabbage tree or NZ flax in photos from the UK!
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Why is it called a cabbage tree just out of interest?
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I didn’t know off the top of my head but a quick search informs me that the name was given by Capt James Cook himself because the young leaves are edible. This web page from the Christchurch Public Library looks interesting, all about how Maori made use of cabbage tree and well presented: https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ti-kouka-the-cabbage-tree/
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So we ought to taste it to find out if it’s the same thing 🙂
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We love a generic title on this side of the equator! Palm trees and pampas grass were the height of exotic when I was a kid although the pampas grass now has a very other connotation 🤭🤭
We have an architecture program on tv here at the moment and the owner of the house has a pampas grass bush in this back garden and no one will tell him what it signifies.
The red lighthouse at the end of that wash of blue sea and sky was amazing!!
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We have several native pampas species which are way finer than the exotic ones (the exotic ones grow huge and are a major pest plant here). I have no idea what the ‘other connotation’ is and neither does my in-house expert haha. Puzzled 🙂
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Somehow, these days, pampas grass in the garden means swingers in the house and I don’t mean that jazz dance style from the 1920’s! One might be glad the in-house expert knows nothing about that!!! 🤭🤭🤭😂
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Very lucky I didn’t spray coffee everywhere when I read this, I was drinking; hahaha, so funny, had no idea! Thanks and I’m still smiling 🙂
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🤭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤪
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I already gave you a wow–so I’ll just repeat Jane’s stunning! 🙂
Getting back into the Irish way of seeing things, although all my family keep asking me where I am taking these pictures as they have never seen any of these places and yet lived here all their lives 🤔🤭😂😂
So many beautiful images, Damien. I love the way that you shot the lighthouse in so many different and creative ways, including showing the graffiti.
Thanks Mike. It was such a beautiful walk out to the lighthouse, it’s about 30 mins walk there, right out into Dublin bay and today there was hardly even a breeze, just a slow and steady stillness by the sea, breathtaking blues and then that roaring red lighthouse
Absolutely stunning! But you photoshopped the palm tree 🙂
How dare you 😂😂😂
They are actually real, there is a nature park nearby that I walked through afterwards, full of palm trees and fir trees, so funny to see them next to each other 🤭 nature is awesome
I was teasing 🙂 I remember when I was little (in the West Riding) the local council put potted palm trees on top of the bus shelter in the market place. The first winter saw them off.
Seemingly there are a lot of them around the beaches here, I thought it was a joke but no. It’s the new West coast on the eastern side 😂😂
Climate change in action. You wait until the Gulf Stream runs cold. The Irish Tundra is on it’s way 🙂
Jane and Damien, hi from NZ. Saw your chat as I was about to add a comment re the “palm” tree which looks to be our NZ native cabbage tree, Cordyline australis. I know folks over there refer to them as “palm trees”, makes me smile 🙂 I adore the “roaring red lighthouse” Damien – both the building and your description!
Anything exotic looking is a palm tree to us 🙂 The number of people who plant banana trees amazes me. They are just ugly when they’re green and you should see them in the winter. Like they’ve been sprayed with acid.
It always startles me to suddenly come upon our iconic cabbage tree or NZ flax in photos from the UK!
Why is it called a cabbage tree just out of interest?
I didn’t know off the top of my head but a quick search informs me that the name was given by Capt James Cook himself because the young leaves are edible. This web page from the Christchurch Public Library looks interesting, all about how Maori made use of cabbage tree and well presented: https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ti-kouka-the-cabbage-tree/
So we ought to taste it to find out if it’s the same thing 🙂
We love a generic title on this side of the equator! Palm trees and pampas grass were the height of exotic when I was a kid although the pampas grass now has a very other connotation 🤭🤭
We have an architecture program on tv here at the moment and the owner of the house has a pampas grass bush in this back garden and no one will tell him what it signifies.
The red lighthouse at the end of that wash of blue sea and sky was amazing!!
We have several native pampas species which are way finer than the exotic ones (the exotic ones grow huge and are a major pest plant here). I have no idea what the ‘other connotation’ is and neither does my in-house expert haha. Puzzled 🙂
Somehow, these days, pampas grass in the garden means swingers in the house and I don’t mean that jazz dance style from the 1920’s! One might be glad the in-house expert knows nothing about that!!! 🤭🤭🤭😂
Very lucky I didn’t spray coffee everywhere when I read this, I was drinking; hahaha, so funny, had no idea! Thanks and I’m still smiling 🙂
🤭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤪
I already gave you a wow–so I’ll just repeat Jane’s stunning! 🙂
Thank you Merril. I’m loving discovering this foreign city that I happened to have been born in 🤭🤗
I’m glad you are! 🙂
Your photos are a different kind of Wow than what I’m used to seeing…so pretty..
Getting back into the Irish way of seeing things, although all my family keep asking me where I am taking these pictures as they have never seen any of these places and yet lived here all their lives 🤔🤭😂😂