Dry grass gathered for winter feed on Durfee Hill.
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Hayrolls
Making Hay
Tag: rural
Apple Harvest Abstracts
Organic abstract, ripe apples ready for harvest on Malloryville Road in the Finger Lakes
Late one early autumn afternoon Pam and I walked the Malloryville Road from our former home to find these apples, ready for harvest, beside a barn.
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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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Curious Horses
A photographer and his audience
One May early morning two white horses come down from a sloping pasture on Slievenaglogh to view an interloper taking photographs. Slievenaglogh Townland, County Louth, Ireland.
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Curious White Horses on Slievenaglogh, horizontal Curious White Horses on Slievenaglogh, vertical and cropped
Slievenaglogh Townland, County Louth, Ireland.
This I used the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens. It is two shots, the first in horizontal, the second in vertical mode.
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50 vs 24 mm focal length
A Cooley Peninsula Valley on a May Morning
On the northeast slope of Slievenaglogh peak (Irish: Sliabh na gCloch) on the road from Mullaghattin Townland to Riverstown. This day I swapped lenses and took in the same general direction for each. This is the first and last of a series using the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens and I pulled in the shots from the Canon 24mm f1.4 L II USM lens, published in previous posts.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast, 50mm Slievenaglogh View, northeast
Here we look northeast from the Slievenaglogh Townland over the valley between Slievenaglogh and Slieve Foy peaks. Slieve Foy is the far ridge lost in clouds.
This is the first and last of a series using the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens.
Slievenaglogh View, north northeast. 50mm Slievenaglogh View, north northeast
The view includes Little River, Castletown River, Ballycoly and Glenmore Townlands. Adjacent is a sheep pasture with a farm ruin behind the yellow flowered gorse (Whin bush, scientific name Ulex).
Slievenaglogh View, east, 50mm Slievenaglogh View with road, east
Early morning, late May 2014.
Here is a slideshow of the 50mm and 24mm images of this post.
Slievenaglogh View, northeast, 50mm Slievenaglogh View, northeast Slievenaglogh View, north northeast. 50mm Slievenaglogh View, north northeast Slievenaglogh View, east, 50mm Slievenaglogh View with road, east
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Frame
green pastures framed by Whin Bush and Hawthorn windbreak
The road runs high on the shoulder of Slievenaglog peak, the 200 mm lens peers into the next townland over, Ballycoly (or Ballygoley), the valley floor broad, pastured.
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Ballycoly Farmlands from Slievenaglogh
This is the seventh and last of a series using the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM lens.
Here is a recap of recent posts with the 200 and 24 mm lens. Can you tell the difference?
Slievenaglogh View, north northeast Abandoned Hay Wagon 
Ewe and Lambs 
Ewe, Lambs with abandoned hay wagon. Ballycoly Farmlands from Slievenaglogh
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Abandoned II
So much depended on this wagon
Quickly moving sheep pass the hay wagon on May morning, early. A great start to this week.
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Ewe, Lambs with abandoned hay wagon.
This mountainside pasture is grazed by a flock of sheep alongside a long unused farm wagon. Slievenaglogh Townland, Cooley Peninsula, County Louth, Ireland.
This is the fifth of a series using the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM lens.
Here is a recap of recent posts with the 200 and 24 mm lens. Can you tell the difference?
Slievenaglogh View, north northeast Abandoned Hay Wagon Ewe and Lambs Ewe, Lambs with abandoned hay wagon.
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Balwen? Shetland?
Or neither?
This breed may be a Balwen Welsh Mountain sheep, as it fits the description. When the ewe caught sight of me, she hightailed it for cover, the lambs followed.
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Ewe and Lambs
The Balwen is bred for meat and that is the rule in this area, the lambs are sold.
The description is of a black color with a white blaze on the face, four white “socks” and white on the tail. This individual is missing a white tale, so might be a Shetland and even more so as the others of the herd are white (Shetlands are a variety of colors), Shetland is common and the other rare.
These are on the hillside of Slievenaglogh Townland, County Louth, Ireland.
This is the fourth of a series using the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM lens.
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Abandoned
So much depended on this wagon
A hay wagon, unused since the twentieth century.
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Abandoned Hay Wagon
No longer needed, this mountainside pasture is grazed by a flock of sheep. Slievenaglogh Townland, Cooley Peninsula, County Louth, Ireland.
This is the third of a series using the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM lens.
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On the slopes of Slievenaglogh
One white horse
Horse pasture on northeast slope of Slievenaglogh peak (Irish: Sliabh na gCloch) on the road from Mullaghattin Townland to Riverstown.
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On the slopes of Slievenaglogh
Foreground is yellow flowered gorse (whin bush, scientific name Ulex). Early morning, late May 2014.
This is the second of a series using the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM lens.
