Gravestones

These stones are in an old graveyard in Portlaoise and are used as stepping stones! I wonder if they've ever been transcribed?

A seashell :-)

Not any old seashell and not found by the sea - well, not really

Close to........but up a mountain! How it got there - no-one knows, but probably carried by a bird.

Still, it was a sight to see, enough to make me take a photo of it.

The mountain - we were taking one of the walks down round Glengarriff, down the Glen as it would be called locally. Absolutely beautiful walks down there, and the whole place is kept so well - and signposted. Maggie (my Boxer) just loved those walks, and Glengarriff - everywhere around it is so beautiful and so peaceful.

Anyway, there we were on one of the long walks, one which takes you way way up high so you can see miles around and then there was this shell lying off the path. It's a very old limpet and it's been there a long time, or maybe not exactly where I saw it, maybe buried and now or then uncovered. Maybe I'll never see it again when I take that particular walk.

But, as I say, it was a sight to see, so far from and yet so close to where it should have been - so unusual in the place it was in and so very high up, away from the sea