Picto Diary - 21 April 2019 - Easter in Ireland
Above: Lake Corrib. County Mayo, Ireland. 21 April 2019.
Above: TIMDT at Kylemore Abbey. County Mayo, Ireland. 21 April 2019.
Built 1860 by US MD with a large Inheritance. This extermal image best aspect. Dedans, pas grand chose. TIMDT poses in foreground. — at Kylemore Abbey.
Above: Monkey Puzzle Tree. Kylemore Abbey Gardens. County Mayo, Ireland. 21 April 2019.
I walked a two mile round trip from the abbey to the abbey gardens.
Above: Pat, Jean, Bishop, TIMDT Bronx Girl. Ballynahinch Castle Hotel. Connemara. Ireland. 21 April 2019.
30 year reunion with Pat Mullan and wife Jean. Pat and Mwah (sic) worked together for three years In late '80's on an S and L turnaround project for Citibank in Miami, FL.
Mullans returned to Pat's native Ireland in 1993 whereupon Pat became a writer. He is now working on his sixth novel, a scientist fiction thriller set in China. Jean, is a school teacher. Pat and Jean have two daughters. Pat has four other children by a previous marriage.
'Technology has replaced Catholicism as Ireland's national religion." Pat Mullan — feeling delighted with Margaret Taylor at Ballynahinch Castle Hotel.
Above: Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne in "The Quiet Man," John Ford Film, 1952.
THE QUIET MAN
Filmed nearby. Watched last night.
Learnings about Ireland from movie.
1. Lots of time drinking and singing in bars.
2. Irish villagers are busybodies.
3. Strict protocols for courting.
4. Refreshing absence of subtle politics. — at Ashford Castle in Ireland.
John Wayne in "The Quiet Man." John Ford film, 1952.
Above: Sri Lanka Easter bombing of Christian Churches. Columbo, Sri Lanka. 21 April 2019.
Addendum:
I certainly think Scotland should be on our ride list as I enjoyed it thoroughly, are you going to be near Inverness as the Inverness Castle is a very very special place to stay also it's very near Lockness-Enjoy
Markco,
Ojai, CA
Global warming 350 million years ago?
The Burren is underlain by limestones of the Lower Carboniferous (Visean) period. The limestone formed as sediments in a tropical sea which covered most of Ireland approximately 350 million years ago.
AND scientists have long believed that lobster-like crustaceans first appeared on planet Earth about 360 million years ago.
Imagine, surviving all that warmth.