Prelude: November sky over Nead an Iolair
Up on our hill above the Cove we are constantly treated to painterly skies. We could fill a whole blog with these changing skyscapes, and now – in late November – we have an extended period of clear cold weather which offers us spectacular sunsets: each day seems to outdo the previous one. On our walks we can’t resist using our cameras to record the wide West Cork skies, although these pictures are barely adequate to recreate the full celestial symphony. We have tried to come up with words to express to ourselves how magnificent these are: somehow the words seem trivial…. Stunning crops up frequently, as do mesmerising, awe-inspiring, exquisite, sublime, unsurpassed. Perhaps it’s best just to let the images speak for themselves: we feel privileged to be living in this incomparable land.
Overture: Bay rainbow
Arietta: Sheep’s Head horizon
Intermezzo: Bow over Bishops Luck
Crescendo: Ballybane sunrise
A bocca chiusa: silver Mizen sky
Segue: Meteoric dawn
Tranquillo: dusk at Rossbrin
Caballeta: two suns
Con fuoco: Roaring Water resplendent
Cadenza: transcendental times
Finale and Coda
Roaringwater Journal 
Love your pictures and your blog please keep it going.
P.S.
Any thing you know about the folklore of Three Castles Head i would personally love to know.
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Hi Carolyn. We are planning a future post on Three Castle Head – most gorgeous place in Ireland!
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love reading your blog, I am moving in feb to cork it will be grand like. have a happy new year
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Hi Peter, Nice to ‘meet’ you! Will you be in Cork City or West Cork?
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Beautiful, with a breathtaking Finale and Coda.
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Stunning photos! Thanks.
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Interesting the frustrating red tape you are experiencing along the way, and that its usually Finola who voices this. Is Robert being polite?
Another couple I know who have returned to retire in Ireland react in a similar way, the woman is Irish and gets very annoyed by the red tape, while her swiss husband says he is settling in very comfortably.
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Yes, that IS interesting! Maybe it’s like being a member of a family – we can criticise it, but if an outsider does it we defend the family fiercely. Or maybe the blow-ins feel that if they say anything negative people will take more offence. Having said that, I must admit that Robert is far better at seeing the positive in everything that I am. But then again, he’s not the one having to take the lessons… 🙂
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