Saturday was a sunny and bright morning. It would have been lovely to go to the Botanic Gardens, but Farmleigh is much near and meant we could be there and back in an hour - especially as the path along the far side of the lake was closed for maintenance.
You can see the full album HERE, but I'll put some highlights in this post. We saw one (or two) little grebes, a heron was on point duty when we arrived and still there when we left, and we saw a lovely chaffinch in full Spring plumage.
Some Spring bunnies...
And a lovely stone bench made from old stone capitals - my sister and I went for a walk to this little park on St. Patrick's Day.
My bad - I meant to schedule this before I went down to visit my sister, but there was a lot going on last week.
The greeting says "Happy St. Patrick's Day to you", and is the traditional old Irish script which went out of use in the mid twentieth century.
The same chestnut tree in the park which was the first to green up last year is already green. The forsythia is in my sister's garden - it was exceptionally good weather for St. Patrick's Day.
