Tag Archives: National Flags

Narrow… as in Narrow Boat

Posted on 30/07/2016 by aj vosse

It’s been a while since I last featured boats and canals. So… my first thought when this week’s challenge arrived was narrowboat or narrow boat, whichever you feel like choosing! I’m not gonna tell you about the history but basically … Continue reading →

Posted in Boating, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Family & Life, Grand Canal, Ireland, Photography, Reflections, Royal Canal, Travel, Walking | Tagged Architecture, autobiographical, boats, bridges, buildings, canal locks, canals, challenge, colour, Dublin, friendship, fun, GCD, Google Docks, Grand Canal, harbour, history, holiday, imagination, industrial, Ireland, Irish countryside, Kilcock, Leinster, Liffey, M50, Ma Nature, magic, National Flags, outdoors, past, photography, postaday, Ribbontail, Ribbontail Bridge, Royal Canal, summer, sunset, sunshine, traffic, travel, trees, walk, water, weather, weekend, Weekly Photo Challenge:, WordPress | 25 Comments

Look UP!

Posted on 09/07/2016 by aj vosse

Look up? Look up! Look… yes, look up! I really enjoy looking up. I often do so… looking for butterflies up in the trees… looking at aircraft or birds flapping up above. OK… only the birds do the flapping… the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dublin, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Ireland, Photography, Seasons, Sport, The Birds and the Bees, Travel, Walking | Tagged Architecture, bird watching, birds, blue, buildings, colour, Connolly Hospital, Croke Park, Custom House, fire, fun, fungi, Guinness Storehouse, imagination, Ireland, Irish War Memorial, National Flags, night photography, Nikon, parachute, photography, plane tales, Poolbeg, postaday, Samuel Beckett Bridge, South Africa, statue, sunshine, The Dublin Spire, up, urban photography, weekend, Weekly Photo Challenge:, Wellington Testimonial, wild fruit, wires, WordPress | 14 Comments

Street Harmony!

Posted on 03/07/2016 by aj vosse

Ailsa’s theme this week is harmony. The good lady’s first photo is of a harp player busking on a Dublin street. That got me thinking… I have also posted a photo of the selfsame lady in the past. So, Ailsa … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Dublin, Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Ireland, Local Curiosity, Local Places, Photography, Travel | Tagged action, art, blog buddies, blogging, buildings, challenge, colour, danger, Dublin streets, fun, future, Grafton Street, green, humour, imagination, Irish politics, memories, money, morning stroll, muse, music, my blog, National Flags, Nikon, outdoors, people watching, photography, poetry, positive, postaday, red, soul, St Stephen's Green, statue, street art, street photography, streets, time, traffic, travel, walk | 19 Comments

The April A to Z Ouch!!

Posted on 13/05/2016 by aj vosse

It was my first go at the April A to Z. Will it be my last? No… I’ve already put a few ideas away for next year. One of this year’s challenge posts may have a spin-off… or, indeed 26 … Continue reading →

Posted in Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Ireland, Photography, Travel, Writing | Tagged #AtoZChallenge, #memyblog, #ombh, art, autobiographical, bee, birthday, blog buddies, blog hopping, blue, boats, boerewors, braai, butterflies, canals, colour, creative writing, cricket, Dublin, Dublin Alphabet, experience, fiction, flying, freedom, Friday Fact, friendship, full moon, fun, GLW, green, hope, humour, ideas, imagination, Jackson Pollock, James Joyce, Jeanie Johnston, Kilcock, leprechaun, life, life... haha..., Liffey, light, manners, memories, music, National Flags, night photography, opinion, passion, past, people watching, photography, pink, positive, postaday, rain, red, Red Admiral, Royal Canal, SAAF, Saffers, Samuel Beckett Bridge, short story, signs, statue, time, weather, wildlife photography, words, writing, zimmer | 7 Comments

Reflecting on Rebellion, Revenge, Respect and Reconciliation

Posted on 21/04/2016 by aj vosse

Yes, it’s quite a mouthful but it’s something that’s been getting to me lately. What, you may ask? Rebellion and revenge or respect and reconciliation? The people of Ireland are currently commemorating the 100th year since the 1916 Easter Rising. … Continue reading →

Posted in Dublin, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Ireland, Photography, Reflections, Travel, Walking, Writing | Tagged #AtoZChallenge, Architecture, autobiographical, beauty, buildings, colour, dignity, dreams, Dublin, Dublin streets, friendship, future, GCD, Grand Canal, gratitude, history, hope, ideas, imagination, inspiration, Ireland, Irish politics, life, Liffey, light, liquid, my blog, National Flags, night photography, opinion, past, peace, photography, Poolbeg, positive, postaday, questions, Royal Canal, Second Boer War, statistics, urban, urban photography, war, water, writer, writing | 20 Comments

April A to Z – Dopey Dozy Does Dublin!

Posted on 05/04/2016 by aj vosse

And so he does! Yes, me… dopey, is going on a walk about. I’m taking a leaf from Christina B’s book, blog… whatever. She’s gone with galleries to show off her letters for the challenge so for today (and possibly … Continue reading →

Posted in Castles, Crosses & Churches, Dublin, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Ireland, Photography, Seasons, The Birds and the Bees, Train Tales, Travel, Walking, Writing | Tagged #AtoZChallenge, Architecture, art, bridges, buildings, city life, clouds, Co Dublin, colour, Convention Center, culture, Custom House, Dublin, Dublin Alphabet, Dublin Bay, Dublin Docks, Dublin streets, flowers, focus, friendship, fun, Ha'penny, history, inspiration, Ireland, Leinster, Liffey, light, National Flags, night photography, people watching, Phoenix Park, postaday, quays, rainbow, Samuel Beckett Bridge, ships, statue, steam train, sunset, The Dublin Spire, urban photography, Wellington Testimonial | 21 Comments

The Garden of Remembrance…

Posted on 28/03/2016 by aj vosse

This weekend, in Ireland, there are many parades and ceremonies commemorating the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. I’m not Irish and even though we’ve been here for 15 years there are certain things I steer well clear of as … Continue reading →

Posted in Dublin, Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Ireland, Photography | Tagged death, Dublin, freedom, future, history, hope, ideas, inspiration, Ireland, Irish politics, life, National Flags, peace, positive, postaday, pride, questions, respect, statue, writing | 4 Comments

Flutter

Posted on 14/02/2016 by aj vosse

This week Ailsa has got my copycat juices going. Her flutter challenge post includes four photos… a bird, a butterfly, a kite and last but not least some national flags. So, I’ll do exactly the same… a bird… a butterfly… … Continue reading →

Posted in Dublin, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Ireland, Photography, The Birds and the Bees, Travel | Tagged beach, beauty, birds, blog buddies, blogging, blue, buildings, butterflies, challenge, city life, clouds, colour, Dublin, flowers, flying, GLW, gull, inspiration, Ireland, life... haha..., light, my blog, National Flags, phones, photography, postaday, Red Admiral, Saffers, Sandymount, sea, seagull, sky | Leave a comment

Alphabet… Memories

Posted on 18/01/2016 by aj vosse

I was going to move away from this week’s challenge… until reading a fellow Saffer’s post. Her gallery really reminded me of places and memories of the past. One photo in particular got me thinking. Christina, like me, is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Daily Photo's and Chit-chat, Dublin, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Ireland, Sport, Travel | Tagged blog buddies, blog hopping, challenge, DPchallenge, Dublin, Dublin Marathon, Dublin streets, friendship, fun, history, inspiration, Ireland, life... haha..., memories, National Flags, past, photography, postaday, running, Saffers, South Africa, sportsmanship, Weekly Photo Challenge:, words | 3 Comments

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Posted on 17/03/2015 by aj vosse

St Patrick’s Day seems to have grown into a massive international global event. I remember, while a teen, first hearing something about the 17th March celebration in New York. I think that may have been the only event of note … Continue reading →

Posted in Daily Photo's and Chit-chat, Dublin, Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Fun and Food, Ireland, Local Curiosity, Local Places, Photography, Travel, Walking, Writing | Tagged autobiographical, buildings, Co Dublin, colour, Dublin, food, friendship, fun, green, Guinness Storehouse, holiday, horses, humour, inspiration, Ireland, Kilcock, Liffey, National Flags, póg mo thóin, poetic licence, positive, postaday, St Patrick's Day, travel | 7 Comments

Perspective?

Posted on 03/02/2015 by aj vosse

This weekend gone by I completed my Level 1 Cricket Umpire’s course in Dublin town. On Saturday morning I caught the train to Pearse Station and walked the 2 odd kilometers to the venue along some of Dublin’s most famous … Continue reading →

Posted in Dublin, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Ireland, Photography, Seasons, Travel | Tagged Architecture, blue, buildings, Dublin, Dublin streets, Ireland, National Flags, Pearse Station, postaday, sky, St Stephen's Green, travel, walk | 3 Comments

Fly the Flag!

Posted on 17/08/2014 by aj vosse

There are days when we feel the urge to tell the world how we feel about a particular situation. Which side of the fence we’re actually on. Lately, much has been happening in the world that has divided opinion. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Factual Opinion, Family & Life, Writing | Tagged action, buildings, challenge, change, Co Dublin, colour, culture, danger, death, dignity, experience, fair play, faith, focus, freedom, future, history, hope, ideas, inspiration, Ireland, life, National Flags, news, opinion, pain, past, peace, people watching, photography, positive, postaday, questions, rant, running, Skerries, soul, street photography, talk, the will to survive, travel, truth, urban photography, war, words, writing | 4 Comments

Decoration… Ailsa’s WTT

Posted on 13/07/2014 by aj vosse

You know, Ailsa often does this to me. The lady selects a theme and the leaves me to show her bits of Dublin. Meaningless you may say… until I remind you that Ailsa hails from the good city Dublin. Well, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Dublin, Dublin & Leinster Architecture & Other Interesting Sights, Ireland, Photography | Tagged art, buildings, challenge, colour, Dublin, Dublin streets, Ireland, Liffey, National Flags, painting, postaday, street art, street photography, urban photography | 5 Comments

Abandoned Part 2 – WPhotoC

Posted on 06/03/2014 by aj vosse

Last Saturday I mentioned that I most likely have more to offer on the theme of abandonment… so, why not give you a gallery of painful memories. The pain is not necessarily mine but I’m sure you’ll agree when I … Continue reading →

Posted in Dublin, Factual Opinion, Ireland, Local Curiosity, Local Places, Photography | Tagged Architecture, broke banks, buildings, city life, DPchallenge, Dublin, hurt, Ireland, Irish politics, leprechaun, litter, my blog, National Flags, pain, past, poetic licence, poetry, postaday, questions, quirky, Royal Canal, rubbish, ruins, Weekly Photo Challenge:, WordPress | 6 Comments

Symbol

Posted on 07/12/2013 by aj vosse

This week Ailsa challenges us to use the idea of symbols as the basis for a post. Her inspiration came from listening to all the tributes pouring in from all around the world for Nelson Mandela, the first president of … Continue reading →