"One eye sees, the other feels."
Welcome to Foxglove Lane, the online home of Catherine Drea.
Catherine has been observing the beauty and decline of one small patch of the planet since February 2011. The Foxglove Lane Blog has won a number of Irish Blog Awards, including Best Photography 2018.
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Latest posts
Mushrooms, ecology, death.
Out of the blue last week I got a tweet about […]
A happy browse in the courgettes results in eye to eye contact……
Had a look out in the undergrowth after recent stormy and wet weather and was so happy to find a summery pair, and it seemed as if each of them […]
Wild swimming at Brandon Creek, County Kerry
It is said that Brandon Creek in County Kerry was the point of departure for St. Brendan who set out from here in the 6th century […]
Be a bit more friendly towards the wild things
I know the neighbours despair of my nettle border and my overwhelming gorse mountain but I can’t resist including them all in my mixed up […]
It’s quiet here as usual but it’s Mayday in Havana, Cuba!
Every Mayday I think of the huge celebrations I attended once in Havana. On Mayday morning our hosts, a writer, his beautiful dancer wife and his mother aged 85, […]
Epicurus (Ἐπίκουρος, Epikouros, “ally, comrade”; 341 BCE – 270 BCE)
I never really knew where the term epicurean came from. So anyway it seems that it came from a Greek philosopher called Epicurus. “His philosophy was to attain […]
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