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LIFE AS MYTH
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JOURNAL
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JOURNAL 2008
Impressions at sunrise
Finding the inner muse
WINTER 2008
Postcards from the Connemara
Index 2008
An eclipse in Ireland
Roundstone
The connemara
A pilgrimage to Clonfert
Collecting sea glass
Brigid's well
Finding Mag Mell
LIFEWORKS
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WINTER 2008
ROUNDSTONE
| The Roundstone beaches at Gurteen and Dog's Bays are rare ecosystems due to their machair vegetation. Found exclusively in Scotland and on the west coast of Ireland, a machair is a former beach which is now higher than the adjacent beach due to a drop in sea level. Another unusual feature of these two beaches is their sand. Though usually the byproduct of rock erosion, the Roundstone sand forms from the shells of sea creatures (foraminifera).
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The view near Roundstone.
The sky road.
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