A trip to Ireland in the spring time proved to be an awesome time to go. We worried it would be cold, rainy and dreary, but oh how we were wrong. Springtime in Ireland is spectacular. Here are but a few of my favorite colorful and scenic pics.

One of the first things we noticed were these beautiful pink flowering trees.  They were everywhere.  Everyone on the bus was asking our tour guide about this spectacular tree.  We wanted to know what it was.  His response…I don’t know.  If you are a tour guide, shouldn’t you know the answer to this?  I mean these trees were everywhere.  Did I mention our tour guide was Canadian?  That’s ok, we managed to ask an actual resident of Ireland and we were told they were cherry blossom trees.  Who knew?  I need one in my yard.  Wonder if they grow in Oklahoma?

I absolutely LOVE tulips.  Keith has promised me that when we get settled in the new house and he puts his master gardner gloves on, he will plant me some tulips.  Red I’m thinking.  Although a variety is also quite nice.

While in Killarney, we visited the grounds of this beautiful castle.  It was perfectly manicured and it was filled with those cherry blossom trees.  There were miles of walking trails and people were enjoying the beautiful day.  We had finished walking through the town and were waiting to board the bus when I noticed the cute little flowers growing out of the stone fence that surrounded the castle.  Beauty even grows out of stone in Ireland.

The day we visited Blarney Castle was almost beauty overload.  Again, perfectly manicured, clean and everything was blooming.  A couple of interesting things that were a bit out of the ordinary incuded a waterful and this weird little red plant growing in front of the waterfall.  I have no idea what it was and our “Canadian” tour guide didn’t either. 

A couple more spectacular flowers I came across that my camera had to capture.
The last few pics of flowers came from the day we visited the Cliffs of Moher.  The climb up to the top to take photos of the ocean was fantastic. There were hundreds of people there that day and several tour buses.  The rain clouds had lifted and it was beautiful.  We climbed and climbed and climbed and took lots of ocean pics.  We just couldn’t stop looking at it.  As I was standing there just taking it all in I noticed a dandelion.  Yes, a dandelion, just like the dastardly little buggers that grow in Oklahoma and make me sneeze!  Well I had to take a picture of this little Irish dandelion and again,flowering moss growing out of a rock.  I think people thought I was nuts.  Oh well.  Beauty is truly everywhere you look, even in a rock.

Thanks for letting me share.