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lucifersprize) wrote2019-10-31 10:02 pm
lucifersprize) wrote2019-10-31 10:02 pm
Strange and Spooky Travels (Photo Post)
I had been intending to post a few of my pretty photos from my trip to Ireland but I still haven't sorted out the files from my main camera.
These are a few sneaky pictures taken on my phone because they made me laugh in context of my SPN fandom stuff.
So straight to number 1. Our rural guest house in Co. Clare had a collection dotted around the house which they thought was rather charming ...
How am I still alive?
2. Our hotel in Glendalough had rain god!Jared's Olmec fountain in it's lobby. No kidding,this is exactly how I envisaged it when I wrote 'Raining Cats and Gods', right down to the crappy little coloured lights that bar owner!Steve lit it up with. I wish I could have got a better photo but I was trying to hide by it, in the corner, because the staff hadn't seen me and it might have been awkward since they were at reception, answering calls saying there was 'nobody in reception' and helping each other write their resignation letters! (The place was beautiful but it was obvious that it was understafffed and fraught even before then).
3. I found the exact tree that has a role in the fic I started writing for Eldritch. Again, no kidding, this IS it. If I finish it, then I have the makings of the art for it. Yes, I am a little spooked by this point.
Bonus: From my real camera. Throughout the trip we saw so many historic buidings that were supposedly haunted. None of them gave me the chills. Then, we took a walk along the Miner's Way at Glendasan. Alone on a windswept highpoint, barely mentioned in tourist pamhlets, was the Big Hero Lead MIne, operational from the early 1800s through to the 1950s. There are the remains of buildings, steps, hearth stones and the worn cobbles of the streets that the miners hauled the lead over. Their average age expectation was 42 years. It was the most haunted place I have ever visited and impossible to adequately catch on film. I stayed for a while and paid tribute.
So, there it is, my first post in forever. I am still lurking.
Wishing everyone a cosy and safe new season. I swear I will try to check in more often now it's stay-inside weather for me.
These are a few sneaky pictures taken on my phone because they made me laugh in context of my SPN fandom stuff.
So straight to number 1. Our rural guest house in Co. Clare had a collection dotted around the house which they thought was rather charming ...
How am I still alive?
2. Our hotel in Glendalough had rain god!Jared's Olmec fountain in it's lobby. No kidding,this is exactly how I envisaged it when I wrote 'Raining Cats and Gods', right down to the crappy little coloured lights that bar owner!Steve lit it up with. I wish I could have got a better photo but I was trying to hide by it, in the corner, because the staff hadn't seen me and it might have been awkward since they were at reception, answering calls saying there was 'nobody in reception' and helping each other write their resignation letters! (The place was beautiful but it was obvious that it was understafffed and fraught even before then).
3. I found the exact tree that has a role in the fic I started writing for Eldritch. Again, no kidding, this IS it. If I finish it, then I have the makings of the art for it. Yes, I am a little spooked by this point.
Bonus: From my real camera. Throughout the trip we saw so many historic buidings that were supposedly haunted. None of them gave me the chills. Then, we took a walk along the Miner's Way at Glendasan. Alone on a windswept highpoint, barely mentioned in tourist pamhlets, was the Big Hero Lead MIne, operational from the early 1800s through to the 1950s. There are the remains of buildings, steps, hearth stones and the worn cobbles of the streets that the miners hauled the lead over. Their average age expectation was 42 years. It was the most haunted place I have ever visited and impossible to adequately catch on film. I stayed for a while and paid tribute.
So, there it is, my first post in forever. I am still lurking.
Wishing everyone a cosy and safe new season. I swear I will try to check in more often now it's stay-inside weather for me.