I do not bat an eyelid.

Bursts of conversation.

«My stomach is a little upset, I don't know how good a sauce sounds. Maybe pizza...»

Sauce is carbonara, which I agree it's not good at all in such cases.

«Pizza then!»

Some people just deserve to crawl in their own pain and sorrow.

Like a child on Christmas.... Time.

I remember when we were children, the teacher at school made us draw something for Christmas to bring it home and give it to our parents. A kind of child-hand-made Christmas card that Ma' and Da' hung on the wall or on the fridge, ready to be shown to whoever visited the house.

35 years later...

My digital child-mouse-made postcard is hung at the bar!!!

Adventure's spirit.

Episode no 1.

I bought my new camera with the precious help of a friend, Brendan, who shares with me the same love for photography. He suggested me where to buy it at the best price and he's teaching me how to use it.

Going from a normal digital camera to a DSLR is a nice step, but complicated if you have no notions about aperture, shutter speed and ISO. I always used pre-settings and Auto mode, trying to get the best from those till it wasn't enough anymore.

I really enjoy my new "toy" but I'm still at the beginning.

Anyway.

He was heading on his own to a place called Coronation Plantation for a local contest for the new 2014 Calendar and he needed to get a good shot for it. So he asked me if I wanted to join him with my camera. A chance that I didn't miss.

I had no idea that there still are such wild natural spots around in this County, marvellous and almost untouched.

To reach the spot he planned we needed to go through a kind of cold savana filled with hidden, dangerous puddles and crossing a small river walking on wet and slipping rocks.

I think I haven't done something like that since I was a child. Glad to see that my 41 years old body is not aware of its age and I managed such path (which is empty of paths, actually) with me back at home in one piece.

The day after I was all an ache, but trust me, it has been fully worth.

I even saw deer in their natural habitat. 

One word.

Amazing!

Now, let me heal and then I'll be ready for the next one.

This is Brendan's shoot of the Coronation Plantation. Standing Ovation...

Guinness Lake, so called due to the colour of its water.

Roundwood Plant Pump. Really an original way to cover it.

Among the Wicklow Mountains

This house looks like a Castle. Colours around it are simply stunning.

Bren told me those two are the most photographed trees of the County. I asked why, 'Cos they're in the middle of the fucking nothing!', so here's my shoot.

In craziness... we trust.

I'm really a particular person.

Sometimes I joke saying I got OCD, sometimes I really wonder if it's not Asperger, often I just think I'm methodically tidy.

For example.

My DVDs, CDs and books are all in alphabetical order and when it occurs they're from the same author/band/singer, I order them by date of release.

When I was younger and I still had a piggy bank I did the same with the serial letters and numbers of notes.

My laundry on the rack has always the same order, with pegs of different colour depending of which kind of clothes they are (ie. green for socks, red for panties, blue for bras, etc.).

Everything has its own place and if someone moves it from that position:
A. I notice it as soon as I see it.

B. It drives me mental, of course.

I live with this my own way of being since I have memory, and even if my desktop looks chaotic I always know what's on it and (almost always) where.

So. There's this new bloke I work with in the morning, which I already knew we had several things in common, which sorted the coffee cups all in the same position, perfectly on line one with each other, sugar on the left and spoon on the right.

I'm definitively amazed.

I'm not alone.