Ireland Part 3

On October 9, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2026, Architecture, Blue Sky, buildings, bus, Church, clouds, colors, Dublin, Environment, family, iPhone 17, Ireland, Landscape, Madeleine, nature, people, personal, Personal History, shapes, sky, summer, Travels, vacation, wandering, wandering photographerLeave a comment

St. Anns, Dublin. This is the Anglican version of St. Anns. There is also a Catholic version of St. Anns Church in Dublin. I guess there was a shortage of saints, so…….?

We took a day trip to of Dublin to a Neolithic site called the Hill of Tara. This was on the path towards to hill and the ancient site.

No Neolithic in Ireland would be complete without the ever present sheep.

Our Family next to the bus we had for the day. We had an amazing guide for the day who was full of info to share as well as humor. Left to right in the photo: Jess ( our daughter in law), yours truly, our son, Ian ( his son, with the ginger hair), Elliott, our daughter Larissa, behind Elliott ( she kept on task, organized and busy throughout our trip in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland; her son Adam, my wife, Dianna, Maddy, our granddaughter peeking around Dianna and Mark, our son in law.

My next post will take us to Kinsale, Ireland. Thanks for coming along!!

On to Dublin

On September 22, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2026, Architecture, blue, Blue Sky, book, books, brick, Bridge, buildings, campus, chapel, Church, clouds, colors, design, Dublin, Human, iPhone 17, Ireland, Signage, stone, street, street photography, Streets, Travels, vacation, wandering, wandering photographerLeave a comment

Grafton Street, Dublin

St. Andrews Church, Dublin.

River Liffey, Dublin. One of the many bridges that cross the Liffey River in Dublin.

Ha’Penny Bridge, Dublin.

St. Andrews Church.

Trinity College, Dublin.

Trinity College, Dublin.

Signage in two languages. Pretty common throughout Ireland. There is and has been for some time, a concerted effort to save their native language, Gaelic.

Trinity College Library. They are in the process of restoring most of the volumes so I would say about half are offsite, in some sort of cleaning and restoration. Still a pretty cool place and a very popular one.

Edinburgh Pt. II

On September 9, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2026, Architecture, Blue Sky, buildings, city, clouds, design, downtown, Edinburgh, Environment, family, Flowers, Human, iPhone 17, Landscape, personal, Personal History, Scotland, Shadows, shapes, Signage, street, Streets, wandering, wandering photographerLeave a comment

The Royal Mile, courtyard adjacent to the Writers Museum.

Followed by: Holyrood Palace, Grayfriars Bobby ( with our daughter doing the ritual ), Various flora.

Next post ( stop ) will be Dublin. We spent three days in Edinburgh, which included going to the Annual Military Tattoo, which was as amazing this time as our first.

Architectural note: Edinburgh is the only major city in the world that does not have or allow skyscrapers. Although the city has an “old town”, the entire city seems old- like stepping back in time.

Edinburgh

On August 28, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2026, Architecture, Blue Sky, books, buildings, Church, city, clouds, Edinburgh, iPhone 17, Madeleine, people, Scotland, shadow, sky, Streets, Thoughts, Travels, vacation, wandering photographerLeave a comment

Before heading to Ireland we stayed in Edinburgh for three days to see the Tattoo as well as wander around the old city. We stayed right on the Royal Mile, which is one of the oldest, cobblestoned streets in Edinburgh. The Writers Museum was really cool. The building itself was amazing to walk through.

The Royal Mile.

The Writers Museum.

My granddaughter, Madeleine, helping me figure out how to take a panoramic shot on my phone. I understand cameras, but not so much the ones embedded in iPhones.

Live musicians and actors performed all day on the Royal Mile, as it was Fringe Festival time in Edinburgh. This musician is Luke Gajdus. You can catch him on Instagram and YouTube. Our Granddaughter was entranced listening. We stayed till he stopped for the day, just before dusk.

View of the backside of Edinburgh Castle from the rooftop of the Edinburgh Museum

St. Andrews Church.

Along the Royal Mile there are, too many to count, what are called “Closes”, these little walkways between old buildings. Some open up to a courtyard behind the buildings and others are just a pass through to the adjacent street. All have interesting, sometimes historical names.

Recent Idaho Road Trip

On July 14, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2026, abandoned, abandoned buildings, Architecture, B&W, Blue Sky, buildings, clouds, dusk, Environment, Ghostsign, iPhone 17, Landscape, nature, Nature, Signage, sky, Thoughts, Travels, wandering, wandering photographer1 Comment

Most of these images are from our two day stay in a very tiny town in Idaho called Downey. The mill or grain storage facility must’ve closed years ago, but it this is a glimpse into the American past. This is what is referred to as the high desert.

Glass and Steel

On June 23, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2026, Architecture, B&W, buildings, iPhone 17, Seattle, shapes, wandering photographerLeave a comment

Times Passage: Then and Now

On June 10, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2026, Alki Point, beach, Blue Sky, buildings, childhood, Children, clouds, Elliott Bay, personal, Personal History, Portland, Puget Sound, Seattle, Spring, Thoughts, wandering photographer, Washington, West SeattleLeave a comment

Our granddaughter as a young child and today, going to her Senior Prom. ❤️

Upper East Side, Manhattan, 2014

On May 1, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2014, Architecture, B&W, black & white, Fall, Manhattan, New York, New York City, people, street photography, Streets, Travels, wandering, wandering photographerLeave a comment

Entropy, 2012

On February 24, 2026 By Fred KingIn 2012, abandoned, abandoned buildings, B&W, black & white, cancer, entropy, Environment, Gentrification, Georgetown, Seattle, Nikon D7000, Personal History, Seattle, themes, Thoughts, wandering, wandering photographer, WashingtonLeave a comment

Some images taken in 2012 in the Georgetown area of Seattle. Years ago I was shooting in a few neighborhoods or sections of Seattle that seemed to be gentrifying faster than I could cover: Georgetown, First Hill and SODO. At the time of shooting these images, this wall ( if you zoom in a little), you can see the large, metal support poles holding this free standing brick wall. Developers, with the permission or encouragement of the City, rarely side with the notion of preservation. Eventually, this policy, destroys any hope for a sense of history to survive. If you control the perception of the past, by elimination, you lose the sense of connection to the history of our past.

{Quick health update: my last scan showed that the areas of concern are ‘stable’, which is good news. I’m still doing immunotherapy ( Durvalumab) every 28 days, which will continue ‘indefinitely ‘. Being a cancer patient for 18 or so months has been weird, but so far I think I’m one of the lucky ones.}