Ohhhhh! I remember what I was doing before starting to wallpaper my living room! I was still talking about Ireland!
I didn’t even realize until I got this photo up on the computer that the bird had a fish!
This post is going to be mostly for my birder friends! Hawk and I walked up to Nimmos Pier (you can read about the history of it here) and looked at a few boats (some of which were in much better shape than others) and looked at a LOT of birds.
I have not seen a lot of swans in my life, so genuinely had a moment of “oh my gosh, they really do their feathers like that!” … it’s as if the swan was like, “oops, gotta get in my textbook position! Raise the feathers!”
Little things amuse me.
Anyway, it was fun, and I loved seeing new-to-me birds, but DAMN we walked … what, seven? eight miles that day? Both Hawk and I were hurting by the end of the day.
That one with the boat on the shore and the houses/shop across the water is another I will save to paint – reminds me of the Fells Point postcard. Was Balto influenced by Irish buildings?