I'm just back from a lovely week in Spain, where surprisingly the sun shone and the Cava flowed. We did have some rain, which was accompanied by spectacular thunder and lightening. But it was mostly at night time and was very entertaining to watch as with each flash the lightening lit up the sky. Thunder and lightening in Ireland is usually associated with winter and storms, which is what I came back to!! Winter like weather.
Well not exactly, slight exaggeration there, but not exactly great weather either for August..
So, to cheer myself up (and to avoid all the post holiday washing and ironing), I decided while still in 'holiday' mode to finish off my vacation with a trip to Cork.
Of course I had another reason for visiting Cork.
These two!
They are aptly named. Ellie and Tera. Ellie, the elegant! She's the quiet, polite one. Tera, the terror! She's bold as brass. While I'm sitting here writing this she pulling and chewing the cord of the dressing gown I'm wearing (probably shoulda got dressed!), and Ellie is sitting quietly beside me.
On Friday evening, we took them for a short walk to the park opposite Deirdre's house and let them have a look at the sea.
In the park, there is a newly constructed sculpture. And here we are, Sisters with Sisters, standing inside it.
It's called Kindred Spirits, and is a tribute to the Choctaw Indians, who during the Great Famine, while themselves being at their most downtrodden, and having suffered a similar fate, managed to raise $710 (that would equate to approx one million dollars today) and send it to Ireland to help aid the starving people.
Sometimes I don't understand art. I can appreciate the time and effort that the artist puts in to the piece but I don't always 'get' it. But this one is easy to get. It's magnificent! As it wasn't quite dark when we were there, I didn't see it lit up, but Deirdre says its spectacular. I'll have to come back when it's dark.
Being pedigree dogs, Ellie and Tera have 'official names'. Winter Holly and May Sunflower, which to me sound like names that Indians give to their children. So it was kind of nice that their first big outing was to this sculpture.
Now, if only we had a 'Medicine Man' around, we could use his magic powers to clean up the back garden after these two pups.
Oh yes and an Indian summer so that we could sit in the cleaned up garden...
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