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Sunset at Robert Moses State Park
Robert Moses State Park, Babylon, Suffolk County, New York
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The Fairy and the Fiddle
Tullyhorkey, outside Ballyshannon, county Donegal, Ireland
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Fairy rings are circular, earthen dwelling structures of the early Christian age commonly associated with the fairies in Irish folklore. The following story refers to the faerie ring in the photo above, in the township of Tullyhorkey, county Donegal.
“There is a bush growing in our field, and it was always known as the fairy bush. Once a little girl was coming past this bush from the well with a can of water. She saw a little violin just the length of her own little hand and a bow beside it for playing it and both were as white as snow. She brought it home with her to show her father. She was going to try and play on it but her father stopped her and told her to bring it back and leave it where she found it. When she looked for it the next morning it was gone. At other times there were little pipes found at the same place, but only very small ones. The heads of the the pipes were only as small as my thimble.”
Collected from an elderly local informant by Caoimhin MacAoidh in “Betweeen the Jigs and Reels.”
Uplands Farm Trail in Blizzard
Uplands Farm, Cold Spring Harbor, Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
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Uplands Farm is one of my favorite places on Long Island. Set just behind Cold Spring Harbor, the trails from Uplands Farm connect to those which takes you down to the harbor, for those inclined to walk some of the steepest hills on Long Island. The scenery is worth it, tall trees in the woods at Uplands, meadows which steam with dew in summer and blow deep with snow in the winter, and the mountain laurel lining the path as you near Cold Spring Harbor. The winter of 2009/2010 has seen not one, but two blizzards, a rarity for this little island. Uplands Farm is a little slice of pure nature, formerly farmland, now allowed to go back to its natural roots, thanks to, and also the home of the Nature Conservancy on Long Island. This group deserves credit, and hefty donations for keeping much of Long Island green, when the prevailing winds blow towards development. Cutting through the park is the Long Island Greenbelt trail, which goes from North to South, shore to shore. I’d give directions, but I kind of want to keep the place to myself.
