Irish wedding

Today was another fun and productive day.
On the way to work, I set out on my usual mini photo-safari.
This is what I found:

 

This one's for you know who!

This island is so green, they have trees grwoing out of their houses :)

Just like the look of them

 

So, at work, I was able to finish a presentation on Seed Stand certifications. The initial certification part isn't that difficult, alas for free. Getting the Seed Stand ready and prepared is the tricky part. It requires a minimum amount of trees on a certain area, evenly aged etc...Now, go and find that-  and then take all the undergrowth and such out. HECK OF A LOT OF WORK!!!

Also, my allergies were bugging me pretty good. So I went to the drug store to get someting against it.

On the way, I found there was a wedding at the local church.

I've never knowingly been to a catholic wedding (if it was catholic, but I tink it was), so I figured, it's about high time.

So, I grabbed my co- worker and off we went. Was interesting to play fly on a wall for a few moments.

I particularly liked that I was promised for my marriage to be good beyond death. My co-worker asked, if I believed in having my kids until after  death, I could reply in the affirmative, which she really liked.

Oh, I received a poem I really liked, because I found myself in it, during endless hours of research:

I and Pangur Bán, my cat
'Tis a like task we are at;
Hunting mice is his delight
Hunting words I sit all night.

Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill will,
He too plies his simple skill.

'Tis a merry thing to see
At our tasks how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.

Oftentimes a mouse will stray
In the hero Pangur's way:
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.

'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.

When a mouse darts from its den,
O how glad is Pangur then!
O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!
So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Bán, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.

Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light.

Translated by Robin Flower

Written by an unknown Irish Monk, a student of the monastery

of Carinthia, on a copy of St Paul's Epistles