Sean Reidy
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bshamilton wrote:
Delightful image, Sean.
Love the compo and color!
Barry
Thanks Barry. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I was amazed by this place. The eery trees and the deserted cottage spoke eloquently of a time long past and a world we cannot know.
A passing cyclist saw me taking photographs and stopped to tell me he once drank tea in that house. He is 50 now and he was ten at the time,so he was summoning up a memory from 40 years past.
He told me that this isolated house, the last for many miles on this mountain road, once gave hospitality to fourteen travelers on the same night. In years gone by, there were many people who wandered the roads of Ireland: the dispossessed, the mad, the lonely and the sad. In those days, instead of therapy, there was wandering. Priests, paupers, and many others wandered the roads for months or years, and sought hospitality where they could find it. This house, on wild stormy nights, on a lonely mountain road, must have heard many knocks on the door in its time.
I wonder if the search for beauty in the landscape is, in its own way, a therapy of sorts. I know that for me landscape photography is balm for the soul as well as a chance to wander.
Sean
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