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This tree in Killarney National Park was the
most alive thing I've been near in a long time.
Worth the trip! |
For much of this year my life has been all about the drought in California, whether
live tweeting it at work, or trying to understand
my own experience living with it. Somewhere in the middle of the worst of it, when it seemed it might never rain again, I wrote about trying to
stay sane, at the last minute adding a line about needing a vacation, which upon further reflection seemed like a message from my subconscious. Being the type to take those kinds of messages seriously, in April I quickly decided to take a trip, and ended up in one of the wettest places I've been in a good long while: Ireland. Which was *spectacularly* wet, and very green, following several months of heavy rains and floods that were basically at the opposite end of the weather spectrum from what we were experiencing in California.
