Mortalis

Sounds like east Texas too. Except here when your on that narrow country road you have a good chance you will have to let a cow or horse cross the road. More than a good chance here.. it would be odd if you did not see a cow on the road.. lol

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treebeard55

Hope you can see the image clearly enough. I shot this thru the windshield on a rural road in Co. Clare, Ireland, as we were waiting on the true owners of the road, the cattle. (No, I didn't reverse the image.)

Our daughter was then 22 months old. She woke up in the back seat, and was enormously excited: "Cows! Mommy! Daddy! Cows!"

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JLDoggett

Now we know why it is the Emerald Island, all that well-distributed natural fertilizer.

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Mortalis

LOL.. just like here.. Well maybe Texas should be called New Ireland.. That would be fine by me as I have a good bit or Irish blood in me. Can you tell?

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treebeard55

That must be it.

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treebeard55

Just a bit. We love Ireland; my wife would have us move there, were it feasible. My avatar picture is of a sessile oak (Quercus petraea) growing about 2 km from where some of my ancestors lived in the Midlands.

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Mortalis

Thats cool I've never been there myself.. and I know nothing about that part of my family..

Some day I will visit.. Maybe one year we will go as a family.

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bonsaidad

Stranger still is the fact that there is still a big Welsh influence in of all places "Patagonia".
Years ago in the great depression, scores of Welsh miners emigrated to Argentina/Chile to find work in the mines.
The Welsh language was spoken almost everywhere in that area, as the Welsh miners spoke no English.
There are still buildings including a typical Welsh church, and terraced houses still used, and even the modern buildings have a Welsh influence.
So to travel there, for me it would practically look like home, "Very Strange"

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