Glorious weather unveils our beautiful country

IN the glorious weather during the weekend of Nov 23 and 24 — historic weather, one might almost say — the canvas of the Kerry landscape would have inspired, and probably defeated, the efforts of the greatest painters.

Not only was there the ambient mixture of sea and lake waters, but these reflected a blue, cloudless sky and the mountains overshadowing them, their wooded slopes, still bright with foliage so deep into the year, with small, green pastures mirrored like the legendary emeralds on the still, brown water.

Wherever I travel on this island, there is always beauty in the natural features. No vistas are indifferent. If there is ugliness, it is only where man has interfered.