Lush Green Pastures of County Kildare

I had to travel to the other side of Ireland last week for a work meeting, which meant an early start leaving Galway. I've an electric car, so I tend to factor in some extra time to stop at the fast chargers near Athlone and get the charge back up near full before continuing withmy journey. This means for the return journey home later, I'll either have enough charge to get home to Galway or I'll only have to stop briefly in Athlone to charge it up.

What do I think of the electric car you might ask? I love it and would highly recommend it. Sure, there is inconvenience at times. For instance there may be no charger available or the one that is doesn't work very well or has low power delivery. The benefits outweigh the negatives though and I especially love the take off acceleration which is fantastic for over taking and pulling out at junctions.

There I to off on one of my tangents about Electric Cars, but this post was not to be about electric cars, rather it was about some nice photos I took of the Kildare countryside on the way to a work offsite meeting last week.

It was a beautiful bright sunny October morning and having topped up the car sufficiently in Athlone, I was running around 15 minutes early. This meant I could stop off someplace along the way to take a few shots of the beautiful Kildare countryside.

I pulled in beside a farm and took these photos. Wide open beautiful green pastures and azure sky in the background. I'm always taken aback by the beautiful lush flat fertile farmland up this side of the country in comparison to what we have in Galway, especially the West of Galway where I am from.

You can see in the background here that this farmer or one of his neighbouring farmers is supplementing their farming income with some sustainably generated wind energy and I always like seeing this as I drive around the countryside here in Ireland. There is no shortage of wind here, so why not harnessbit for energy. It's certainly better than continuing to burn fossil fuels at a wholesale level for energy production or worse still Nuclear energy, which to my eyes is pure narcissistic, in so far as you're leaving behind nuclear waste with a half lives of anywhere from 90 years for samarium-151 to 211,100 years for technetium-99. Talk about not giving a shiny shite about those coming after you.

On this crisp morning, the moon was also still visible in the cold Autumnal sky. So, I got a few photos of that as well.