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1. Lovely pictures of beautiful landscapes! Congratulations! You made me jealous, now I wanna go hiking as well 😉

   1. I too want to go hiking. Cannot wait the weather get better.

2. Beautiful photos of beautiful countryside!

   1. Thank you! 🙂

3. Your countryside looks so beautiful – would love to try some hiking there!

   1. Thank you! I only share the most accessible places. There are cliffs and gullies, and bogland that are out of my reach 🙂

4. Beautiful 🙂

   1. Thank you! 🙂

5. gorgeous pictures, as always, Inese! I so enjoy your posts!!

   1. Thank you so much! 🙂

6. Again so very beautiful landscapes – oh, and the b/w photos are just magnificent and give the landscapes such a different mood! And – as you know – you couldn’t make me happier with all those lovely sheep!!! 🙂 Have a very beautiful Sunday and a wonderful week, Inese! xxxxxxxxxx

   1. Thank you so much, Sarah. I am thinking of going out for an hour. May be I will find something worth a picture 🙂 Have a wonderful week! xxxxxxxxxxxx

      1. You’re very welcome, Inese! Hope you’ll find something worth “shooting” 😄 Enjoy your walk! 😄 xxxxxxxxx

         1. Thank you, I am already home, a dark cloud scared me, but I took pictures of it 🙂

            1. That’s the best way to handle them 😉 Have a lovely evening! xxxxxx

               1. You too 🙂

7. FABULOUS photos. Is this in Ireland? Wales?

   1. Thank you for stopping by! This is in Ireland 🙂

8. Good morning…Like the sap rising in the spring time, I can feel stirrings in my blood and soul to get my hiking boots back on….come to Ireland and start walking…This is what your blog has done for me. Superb photographs…I thank you so much and hope you are enjoying a glorious weekend….janet. xx

   1. Good morning, Janet, thank you for joining the hike. This is a lovely corner of Comeragh mountains, and I am glad you can stand there and look around, and feel a joy of living on Earth. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! xx

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   By a great lady named Inese.

   1. Thank you so much, friend!

      1. You are very graciously welcome so much.

10. Nire Valley looks like a serene and peaceful place. And you captured the atmosphere beautifully in these photos.

    1. Thank you for stopping by, Otto!

11. I am loving these posts. Love, love, loving them. You are an amazing photographer Inese. You always capture the beauty of you subject whatever that is and you make me feel I am right there in the photo.

    1. Thank you so much, beautiful Lady! It means a lot to me. You live near fabulous mountains, and your eyes are used to beauty xx

       1. These are beautiful mountains and valleys here too though. Different but gorgeous. I wouldn’t mind a walk in them.

          1. Away from civilization. xx

          2. Yeah… I do love that xxxxx

12. Your walks always carry me away into the beautiful scenery and old magic of the places you roam. Lovely views, Inese.

    1. Thank you so much, Diana! Next time we will go to the place that is officially magic 🙂 No cheating.

       1. I can’t wait.

13. Oh Inese, you’ve got to do a bit of hiking up towards the lakes. Just heaven and not too tough at all. x

    1. Jean, I don’t have a hiking companion anymore, and I am afraid to hike alone. I only hike in the places where I can see other people in the distance, and they can see me 🙂 I went to the Nire car park three times, and every time it was empty. I guess that majority of hikers come here only for the Nire Walk once a year. I am planning to go to the Coumshingaun lake because I see that there are always cars in the car park 🙂 I went to the lake in 2013 but lost all my pictures in a horrible hard drive crash. xx

       1. That’s awkward alright. From my experience with the Nire, there tends to be quite a few walkers and walking groups around in Summertime.
          I had a hard drive issue rather like yours. Horrible indeed.

          1. I thought the place would be swarming with hikers. Not at all.

14. I like the beautiful photos, Inese. You’ve captured the area very well. I want to climb into the picture and begin walking about. Incidentally, I lhe place names in your part of the world. I don’t know what a naffrin is, but now I can’t help wondering why someone would want to knock one.

    1. Bun, I just love all these names – they sound like music to me. There are many Knock names in Ireland because Knock means Hill 🙂 Soon I will do a blog about Knockmealdown mountains that are standing right next to the Comeraghs. As to Naffrin, I am not sure, but I know that another name for Knockanaffrin is A Hill of the Mass – Cnoc an Aifrinn 😉

       1. Oh, hill? Now I understand why there are so many Knock-something names in Ireland. They are very melodious names, aren’t they? 🙂

          1. Yes, I love the way they sound 🙂

15. Such a beautiful place to hike. I love the ruins of the old farm.

16. I’d love to hike in this stunning area, although 4-5 hours of it would probably be more than my knees could tolerate. They’d undoubtedly rebel after the first two. The old farm buildings and stone walls must hold such history, as does the land itself. We’ll make a point of getting into the Nire Valley when we come over there. The black and white images are wonderful and portray the ageless atmosphere of the area perfectly. 🙂

    1. Millie, when you are ready to visit the Nire Valley, I will give you directions. If you stay in Cashel or Fethard, you will have to go to Clonmel first, and there is also a lot to see, so plan for a day trip. 🙂

       1. Thank you, Inese! We do plan to be in the Cashel area, but we haven’t booked yet. We’re thinking it will be September, not August as we originally thought. Too many other things have turned up for August. It was early September last time we came and the weather was lovely – no rain all week!

          1. It should be a good month.

17. I want to come! Looking at this year’s goals and budget it won’t be this year! 😦

    1. Well, you have more time to plan your trip, then 🙂 It is a good thing too.

18. I will eat my spinach so I could be ready for our 2 mile hiking trip next weekend! If my bones appear a bit green, then you’ll know that I’ve eaten my vegetables. Breathtaking shots, Lady Inese. I love how you ended your post with black and white photos which added to the antiquity of the ruins. 🙂

    1. Thank you friend! Be ready for a bit of a fairy magic too. We are going to visit a special place that defeats the law of gravity 🙂

19. Enjoyable post. I would have loved the hike in reality

    1. Thank you Derrick. I have never left the road for this one. May be in the future. They have those annual festivals and I would walk in a group with a guide. The mountains may look close, but in fact this is a two hour trip just to reach the lakes.

20. Always such idyllic photos! Did the handsome sheep stare at you for awhile? He must sense the kindness in your heart. ❤

    1. Thank you Rose! This is what sheep do – they stare at you a minute or so, processing something in their mind, and then just run away like crazy 🙂 xxxx

       1. I think they run like crazy so they can show off for you. I know I would 😉 xoxo

          1. Oh yes, from behind, like in most of my pictures 🙂 xxxxxx

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