The O’Flaherty Castle in Connemara, Ireland.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! This post will be a bit short on words but very long on green. I love all the colors found in nature. I’ve been blessed to admire the crystal blue of a clear sky, the deep brown and ochre of rich earth, the impossibly-pure white of fresh snowfall, the vibrant fuschia and magenta of a desert sunset; even that most fiery of red-orange in flowing lava!
But there is something about the color green that speaks to all of us. It is the color that means life. I make my home in a very green part of a green state: northwestern Oregon. Also, I’ve traveled to lush and very green places in the tropics all over the world. But I believe that when I visited Ireland about 6 years ago, I saw the most incredible variety, the most luminous shades of green that I’ve ever seen in my life. This is where my ancestry lies, in the Connemara region of western Ireland.
If you’re interested in buying any of these images either framed or in high-resolution download form, just click on those you like (except the top one). All of them are copyrighted and not available for free download, sorry. Enjoy the green!
A mother giant river otter leads her babies across a plant-covered pond in western Venezuela.
Rice paddies surround a small village on the island of Lombok, Indonesia.
A green frog floats in a green pool in Namibia’s Naukluft Mountains.
A fern-filled grotto in western Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge.
A capuchin monkey peers down from the rainforest of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica.
In the foothills of the Andes in Colombia, a cloud forest seems a great place to hide leprechauns.
One of spring’s colts gambles across a green pasture in eastern Oregon.
A waterfall in the jungle on the slopes of Mt Rinjani on the island of Lombok, Indonesia.
A river flows through remote jungle in southwestern Costa Rica.
A moss-covered bank overlooks a small rapid on Hood River, Oregon.
Home in the Jungle: Life on the Rio San Juan, which flows along the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Big sky and rolling green plains grazed by roan antelope define the pristine Nyika Plateau of northern Malawi.
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Thanks everyone for the nice words. Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
Ah…green. I was just commenting that my post lately seem to all be brown, and gray and white…thanks for the relief!
Great images of the world of green filling all four corners of your photographs with the essence of life…Happy St. Patick’s Day.
Beautiful shots!
Green around the world. Stunning shots!
AMAZING GREEN SHOTS!
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!