Clare's Unit 2 HTML
You might not know how to find it yet, but it will find you. Your place in Ireland. It might be a mood that comes over you, all of a sudden, as you wander through the workshop of a candlemaker in Oughterard, join in a traditional music session in Kerry, finish off the perfect round of golf in Kildare or enjoy a bracing walk through the panoramic landscape of the Sperrin mountains. And the people you meet, with their curious tales, captivating conversation and unique way with a phrase - before you know it, they'll be having you in for a cup of tea and a chat.
-Quote from Tourism Ireland website
THE "DRINK"
And if you do go in for that cup of "tea", be sure to bring your hollow leg, being that the most popular beverages in Ireland are:
You will drink #3 all day and often require #4 to counter the effects of #'s 1& 2!!
THE FORTY GREENS
The relatively warm and moist climate is hospitable to trees of all types, from pines to palms, producing numerous variations of green in the landscape, seemingly out of the imagination of a talented pastel artist.
Photos by me, October 2003
AND FINALLY,
They are in the fields, on the mountains, in the roads.... They are so numerous and wander so far afield that farmers must use different colors of spray paint to identify their flocks.
They are everywhere!
Even on the beach!!!!
Copyright (C) 2003 by Clare Powers All rights reserved.
ORIGINS OF IMAGES:
(Both websites specify that they are free clip art for non-commercial purposes).
MODIFICATIONS TO ORIGINAL (see below) IMAGES:
- Celtic medallion was sized, embossed and made partially transparent for use a background.
- Celtic letters were grouped and sized.
- Photo in ring was sized and cropped circular. Also, linked to in its original photo size as a thumbnail.
- Celtic ring was sized and center cropped out.
- Celtic border was not modified, just used repeatedly.
- Scenery photos (Dingle, Slea Head, Cashel Abbey and Connemara Mountains) were modified with a transparent dark charcoal drawing efffect and text was added.
- The drink drawings (Microsoft clip art) were sized only.
- The word "SHEEP" was created in Powerpoint (Microsoft clip art) by sizing the sheep, typing the text "sheep", copying and pasting tiny sheep over the word used as a grid, cutting the text and grouping the sheep.
- The sheep drawings (Microsoft clip art, see image above) were sized, some flipped horizontal, grouped and airbrushed with multiple colors.
- The sheep in the sand photo was cropped only.
