Here is a show of the Ireland photographs shared so far in January, as I prepared them for publication. Enjoy!!
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
January so far
Enjoy the slide show January retrospective
Category: Season
Keeping Company All
Here is the complete set of 12 photographs of a Ewe and Lambkin crossing The Famine Road with the Adrigole River valley in background. All taken with a Canon dslr and the 24 mm (wide angle) “L” lens.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Keeping Company 6
Presented as a set six of a dozen photographs of a Ewe and Lambkin crossing The Famine Road with the Adrigole River valley in background. All taken with a Canon dslr and the 24 mm (wide angle) “L” lens.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Keeping Company 5
Presented as a set six of a dozen photographs of a Ewe and Lambkin crossing The Famine Road with the Adrigole River valley in background. All taken with a Canon dslr and the 24 mm (wide angle) “L” lens.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Keeping Company 4
Presented as a set six of a dozen photographs of a Ewe and Lambkin crossing The Famine Road with the Adrigole River valley in background. All taken with a Canon dslr and the 24 mm (wide angle) “L” lens.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Keeping Company 3
Presented as a set six of a dozen photographs of a Ewe and Lambkin crossing The Famine Road with the Adrigole River valley in background. All taken with a Canon dslr and the 24 mm (wide angle) “L” lens.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Keeping Company 2
Presented as a set six of a dozen photographs of a Ewe and Lambkin crossing The Famine Road with the Adrigole River valley in background. All taken with a Canon dslr and the 24 mm (wide angle) “L” lens.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Weekday Visit to Sapsucker Woods
A far-seeing, nature loving group of individuals set aside this prime swamp-land in 1954. January 8, 2021, it is surrounded by homes, a major road (the unluckily-named Route 13), an airport. Though the trails are narrow, I am happy to report everyone encountered (six individuals, though two were encountered twice on the circular trails) wore mask and demonstrated consideration.
Swamps are navigated on wooden walkways. Here are a few IPhone 7 snaps from the entrance.
from the parking lot toward visitor center, featuring locally quarried blue limestone. 
Frozen woodland pool 
grapevine bower 
sadly, no more 
Today I noticed for the first time this glistening sculpture with a plaque reading, in part, “Kent Ullberg, Swedish, b 1945, ‘Invitation of the Dance’, 2017. Stainless steel.” It was donated by the billionaire Imogene Johnson shortly before her death in 2018 at the age of 87. Mrs. Johnson was a Cornell University alumna. She and her husband were huge donors to the university, having met there as undergraduates.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Keeping Company
A Ewe and Lambkin cross The Famine Road with the Adrigole River valley in background. The original road was built as a public works project during the Great Famine, improved in the 1930’s and named after the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Open (famine) Road
Healy Pass, also known as Famine Road, ascends the County Cork. Here we look back on a portion of narrow, patched asphalt winding through the Adrigole River valley.
Beara peninsula, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Michael Stephen Wills Photography 