city by the river

these are the buildings by the river in the city

the river runs through the city and right on down here to where we live
approx thirty miles away
and onwards

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O'Connel Street in Dublin

the 'needle' showing in the distance has replaced a space which was left outside the g.p.o. after Nelson's Pillar, a massive tall monument which could be climbed inside ...............was blown up in the early sixties

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The first shot is great. I'd love to see some of those buildings closeup. I am involved in a lot of historic rehab in cities in Connecticut and there are always a lot of nice details on even the plainest old building.

Jim

thanks Jim

it's not so good but here is another view of the buildings which I took yesterday.
I have other shots taken over the years.

I like the buildings a lot but they are very old
and new apartments have replaced many of them

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just adding this one which I took weeks ago.

I love the elegant look of the buildings ,even though I know they are ( mostly ) ready to drop

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Beautiful shots Marie, I love the colours that they use there. "widest street in Europe" why that's just a country lane over here. Just joking. Our problem is to many cars not enough mass transportation.

Jaysus Marie, you almost go me on one of your pics...

J.

the first one is very nice marie.

in highschool we had a poster and that was called "The doors of Dublin"
there where all kinds of colorful doors on it.
must have made a good impression on me that i still remember that after all those years.
i thought about it because of the nicely colored doors in your picture

These shots make me miss Ireland!

I never made it to Dublin other than to fly in and out of, but I spent a lot of time in Galway, and the buildings in the first photo remind me exactly of the opposite side of the river from a walk I took one morning... unfortunately, without my camera!

Great shots!

stoneylonesome wrote:
Beautiful shots Marie, I love the colours that they use there. "widest street in Europe" why that's just a country lane over here. Just joking. Our problem is to many cars not enough mass transportation.

thanks Sandy

I knew you would be thinking something like that

you should see the streets in moscow
miles wide


and I knew the lack of traffic would be noticed in the picture

it's never like it shows here
that was 6th January
(just gone)

it's the 8th here now
the 6th was a holy day ..more or less
there were not as many people or traffic around..until later


never saw it so quiet
it's usually jammed tight

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

is that not you in one of the shots

EoSD30fReAk wrote:
the first one is very nice marie.

in highschool we had a poster and that was called "The doors of Dublin"
there where all kinds of colorful doors on it.
must have made a good impression on me that i still remember that after all those years.
i thought about it because of the nicely colored doors in your picture

thanks EoSd30freAk

I know that poster

I sent a calendar to a friend with pictures of doors like it


http://www.pbase.com/m​osko/doors_and_windows



I have some pictures of doors on the web site
maybe you can see them (url above)
hope it works for you



I love the doors also.



meant to reply to your fireworks shot again
thanks for explaining ( re cost etc)


lot of money spent on fireworks

many thanks Skyphix

' come back to erin' .......... as the song says

I fly in and out too
and get home as quick as possible

I know exactly where you describe in Galway

I love it there too,
I may even have a picture of it somewhere

(no groaning allowed)

marie wrote:
thanks EoSd30freAk

I know that poster

I sent a calendar to a friend with pictures of doors like it

http://www.pbase.com/m​osko/doors_and_windows



I have some pictures of doors on the web site
maybe you can see them (url above)
hope it works for you


I love the doors also.



meant to reply to your fireworks shot again
thanks for explaining ( re cost etc)


lot of money spent on fireworks

Thanks marie for that url

seeing all those colors is wonderful

in holland all the doors are boring brown or green

EoSD30fReAk wrote:
Thanks marie for that url

seeing all those colors is wonderful

in holland all the doors are boring brown or green

I expect too bright colours wouldn't quite look so good on the average door as they do on those georgian doors ...

thanks EoSD30FreAk

I see the River Liffey is still just as black as it was when I was there in 2000! That can only mean that St. James Gate is cranking out the Guiness by the barrels!

What I'd give for a pint of that local Guiness! Just doesn't taste the same over here in the States.