A Dry Journey To Water

On a short journey when going nowhere in particular we turn a corner and meet with a traffic jam

consisting of a nosey dog, a tractor driver and a postman exchanging news and we after sharing laughter, we receive a letter.

A rural traffic jam

The gable end of the Augustinian Priory in Lorrha, Co. Tipperary

We have a tranquil place to park on the banks of the River Shannon that tourists rarely find

and we never share.

I am always fascinated by the rapidly changing light of how its reflection sparkles 

on the surface of the water and the cloud formations too, all of which keep my camera busy.

So do you always carry a camera ?

UFO ?

I often look out across the this field at all times of the day because my desk is set cross cornered. So last night I espied the light of the setting sun glowing on these small trees that stand in the East and so I rushed out to take a photo of the scene.

I was not fast enough to obtain the shot that I wanted

This second shot was taken a few seconds later and reveals a small light with a smokey tail on the right of the photo.

Detail of thing

I sent the above two photos to my photographer daughter for her appraisal (it is good to have experts in the family)

Her comments were :-

"Hmmm its too big for a shooting star ... The space station isn't over you at the moment? It does look like something moving! The tail will be the movement from a normal shutter mode, .... Not a plane too bright i would say. I presume it wasn't visible to the naked eye ?"

I replied saying "No it wasn’t to my eye but here is something strange when I first moved here a light such as this was often visible at night and then the farmer had a Mass said and it was never seen again !"

That was until now....

Daughter final reply:-

"Its very odd, well we don't really know what's out there !!"

Now I am sure that some of you folk Following and others who are Readers of this blog

may very well have your own ideas and I would love to hear from you?