I have given myself permission to do one thing a day for the sole purpose of my personal joy. I love finding pictures for the blog! Here’s to today and to JOY!

Pam

Joseph drove us to Ballymoney for our ancestor search. We took a cab back to Cushendall, and the driver was most gracious to give us a side trip to the famed Dark Hedges of County Antrim. It was indeed a spot unlike anything I had seen before anywhere! It is a row of beech trees clearly planted with intention. The question remains: what was the intention?

Okay, so this is with the telephoto lens and it’s a bit blurry. No way was I going to walk onto the fairy hill to check it out up close. I felt I was brave to merely walk around the back of the hill on the lonely road by myself. What does it look like to you? Is this strange, or what?

Here’s a nook in a hedge on the edge of a property on the road into town. I wondered, “Who sits there and what do they do there?”

One day, on the same road, I think, we were walking into town. To our amazement and amusement, a man popped out of a hedge right in front of us and said good day. He had carved a hole in the tall hedge along the road, where he sat on a bench watching the passers-by. He said he was the brother of someone we had met in town. When asked, the man in town said yes, this was his brother. But I couldn’t help but wonder if they were pulling the wool over our eyes. Maybe the man was, after all, really a leprechaun.

Okay, so what could be more quirky or strange than the tower itself? It had impressed me that way when we first saw it in July 2009. When we became residents, that impression remained! That said, I fell in love with it! The kitchen was built about ten years ago, and its skylight affords a comfortable view of the tower’s heights.