From my kitchen window

We believe in fairness in my household, so when I cook, my wife cleans the dishes, sauce pans etc and when she cooks, I do the cleanup afterwards.

Last week, after enjoying a tasty and healthy meal with my wife and family, I was doing the dishes in the sink. There is a window there looking out on a farmer's field, so there's always a nice back drop while doing the dishes.

The clouds were looking great this particular day as you can see. So I opened the window and went snapping!

I always like a bit of contrast. This photo and clouds I captured had this, with dark clouds up high mixing with the last of the low light in the sky, doing it's best to be seen before the earth spun away for another day giving way to night.

I like the way that the Hawthorn trees are framed by the light here. You really can't beat nature and the natural light that our nearest star shines upon us. We would literally be dead without it. That big bright ball in the sky is more important than we often think.

This dry stone wall bounds out property on two sides and often attracts nice comments here on Hive. They are very common here in Ireland and especially in the West. People often wonder why the stone walls are so prevalent. It's down to how stony the land in the West of Ireland is. Farmers had to try and clear these stones, so that they could grow grass and make the ground more productive. Rather than transporting the stone long distances,the farmers used the stone to build boundary walls for their fields to separate them from their neighbours.

There are other walls too, which have a sad history. These are known as famine walls and were built during Ireland's darkest hour in the 1840s. Often these walls did not even need to be built and can be seen going up mountains. The powers that be in that time, the English would not give food to those who were starving for free and made them build pointless walls instead. Here is an example from County Clare.

The photo above was sourced here https://theroamingbean.com/2013/05/05/the-irish-potato-famine-the-memorials-of-today/

The images used throughout are all my own captured on my Samsung Smartphone except for the last one which I included a source for

Thanks as always for stopping by everyone.

Peace Out