Artistic sense.Inis Meáin A page from Elizabeth Koopman's blog - a person who has moved to Irish Speaking Inis Meáin in Galway Bay -- Please go to her blog for more like this -- SHE SAYS,
"...that part of Inis Meáin between the airstrip and Trá Leithreach is where I experience a very lively aspect of the landscape of Inis Meáin. It is here that I feel and see the freshness of the everlasting renewal of her appearance.
First of all there are the dunes with their beautiful mix of colours varying from light grey via vivid green to a pale sort of green. And when the sun is shining upon them the colour of the dunes even turns out to get a yellow glance… The dunes themselves radiate strength and power.
The beautiful coloured dunes
The only sign of a human touch here is the growth of a specific sort of grass to keep the sand in place. Furthermore the airstrip would probably be covered by sand sooner or later. When I take one of the paths leading to the upper part, I have a lovely view over the sandy beach and the ocean with its impressive waves. Looking at my right hand there is a part of the beach where there is a large collection of stones of all sorts and sizes. In between there are little ponds in which carrageen moss of an almost artificial looking green colour grows
Ponds with Carrigeen Moss
. I see magnificent looking shells stuck on the rocks. Looking closely at their various prints you easily become overwhelmed with emotion: every tiny line on the shield is worked out completely and together they show a master piece in itself.
Moss overgrowing the rocks.
Walking on towards Trá Leithreach a sort of enlightened happiness comes over me. Here too there is that special sort of liveliness in the landscape. It expresses the ultimate vitality of youth; freshness, a sense of freedom and even a little bit of provocative attitude; the playful lines of the stone walls winding themselves through the landscape ending in a joyful meeting of three or four lines together in a victorious gesture.
Stone walls over the dunes
Slán go fóill,
Elisabeth from Inis Meáin"
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