On the Tain Way, repost
A place of myth and wonder on foot and approachable
Category: Mountain
First Water Trailhead, repost
A desert garden with plans
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Rincon Peak Summit, repost
The Sky Island Experience
The Rincons are one of 42 Sky Mountain islands isolated from each other by the gradual warming and drying climate changes since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. While this marvelous environment of oak and pine forests only accessible with much effort on foot, it is literally visible from every point of the Tucson valley and million human inhabitants.
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Marvelous Rocks
a ghost story
Weathered granite boulders greet visitors to the Triangle T Ranch.
Your imagination roams among the natural forms.
A tableau of figures keep silent watch with the ghosts of Texas Canyon.
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Superstition Galleries, repost
Explore the Superstition wilderness of Arizona
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Slievenaglog Slideshow
A May Morning, Early
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Ballycoly Farmlands from Slievenaglogh 
Slievenaglogh View, northeast 
Slievenaglogh View, east northeast 
Slievenaglogh View, east northeast 
Slievenaglogh View, north northeast 
Slievenaglogh View with road, east Farmhouse ruin, Slievenaglogh Townland I 
Farmhouse ruin, Slievenaglogh Townland II 
On the slopes of Slievenaglogh 
Abandoned Hay Wagon 
Ewe, Lambs with abandoned hay wagon. 
Slievenaglogh View, northeast, 50mm 
Slievenaglogh View, east, 50mm 
Curious White Horses on Slievenaglogh, horizontal 
Curious White Horses on Slievenaglogh, vertical and cropped
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Slievenaglogh View, east, V
Looking east
This the fifth and final of a series of landscape photographs taken from this position. Click for the first post of this series.
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Slievenaglogh View with road, east
The peak is named, in the English language, Slievenaglogh. It is so strange as it’s not English, being instead a transliteration of the Irish name “Sliabh na gCloch.” This is “Rock Mountain” translated literally. Slievenaglogh is carried to the townland, a long thin swath of land being the peak and associated ridge-line.
The rocks up there are called “gabbro,” a type of magma slowly cooled under ground. Slievenaglog, Slieve Foy across the valley, and the Morne mountains all formed within volcano magma chamber(s) of the Paleocene, 66 million years ago, a time associated with extensive volcanism and the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that gave rise to the current age.
Our younger cousin has been up there, optimistically we left it for a later trip.
Click for another interesting post and story from County Louth.
Here is a slide show of this landscape series.
Slievenaglogh View, northeast Slievenaglogh View, east northeast Slievenaglogh View, east northeast Slievenaglogh View, north northeast Slievenaglogh View with road, east
A link with interesting reading on County Louth geology.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast, IV
View of Slieve Foy
This the fourth of a series of landscape photographs taken from this position. Click for the first post of this series.
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Slievenaglogh View, north northeast
The distant ridge, Slieve Foy, is the site of a mythic battle from the epic “The Cattle Raid of Cooley” (Irish: Táin Bó Cúailnge).
Pam and I did a circuit of the island, returning to the home of my Mom’s first cousin. Our last full day on Ireland a cousin took us on the Tain Trail, over Maeve’s Gap of Slieve Foy and into Carlingford town.
Our route is partly visible to the right of the ridge, hidden in low clouds.
Click for another interesting post and story from the Cooley Peninsula.
Here is a slide show of this landscape series.
Slievenaglogh View, northeast Slievenaglogh View, east northeast Slievenaglogh View, east northeast Slievenaglogh View, north northeast
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast, II & III
Rural Scenery
These are the second and third of a series of landscape photographs taken from this position. See the previous post for the first.
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Slievenaglogh View, east northeast Slievenaglogh View, east northeast
I visited here early morning of the Monday Pam and I embarked on a trip around the island of Ireland.
Arrived the previous Saturday when, after some sites between Dublin airport and the Cooley Peninsula, we met my Mom’s first cousin who had invited us for a visit. We had a grand time meeting them.
The ruin in this view is on the slopes of the peak. Some of these ruins are former homes with the replacement nearby. This appears to be an abandoned farm.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast I
It goes on and on and on
Slievenaglogh is the name of a peak on the Cooley Peninsula of County Louth, Ireland near to the birthplace of my Mom, Proleek, a few townlands to the west.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast
On the northeast slope of Slievenaglogh peak (Irish: Sliabh na gCloch) on the road from Mullaghattin Townland to Riverstown.
Here we look northeast from the Slievenaglogh Townland, the valley between Slieve Foy and Slievenaglogh peaks.
The view includes Little River, Ballycoly Townland and Castletown River.
Adjacent is a sheep pasture with a farm ruin behind the yellow flowered gorse (whin bush, scientific name Ulex).
Slieve Foy is the far ridge lost in clouds. Early morning, late May 2014.
