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Hillview Garden Visit 2024 Turas chuig Gáirdín Radharc a chnoic 2024

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Updated: Aug 18, 2024


 Having traversed the majestic grounds of Hillview

And viewed its many beautiful colourful plants

We ambled down towards the duck pond

We were suitably clad in raincoat gear

I was brandishing my protective Kerry brolly

To fend off the wetting effect of constant drizzle

While treading very carefully

Down the muddy rain-soaked path

Through the inviting open wooden gates

And viewed an ornate resting bench

The day was damp as was the seat

And not one for resting bums on seats

So, we plodded on carefully

Down along the muddy sodden slippery ground

Past some beautiful verdant green shrubbery

Dotted with some remaining fragments

Of the annual extravagant Hosta display

On our right was a newly planted oak tree

Resplendent with its fresh coat of ornate leaves

Behind it stood a most beautiful hydrangea

Its lovely white flowers sprawling on the ground

Being weighed down, strained and washed out

By recent incessant weeping from the heavens

So, we trudged along the grassy green rain-soaked path

And edged our way forward to a nice white painted iron platform

We stood and viewed the green algae covered pond

We crossed over an old moss laden ivy-covered wooden bridge

Past a forest bush struggling to survive

With clinging ivy wrapping its green tentacles all around it

In an all embracing over wrapping choking hug

As we view the pond, we note some dummy ducks

Which were positioned on the bank and in the pond itself

As we stared into the abyss of the algae smothered duck pond

We beheld a solitary duck nesting on her eggs

Waiting for her baby ducklings to hatch out

She was heavily camouflaged and in perfect peace

We did not disturb the duck sanctuary

And departed to let her hatch away in peace

In the cosiness and security of her pond side nest.

 

Mick O Callaghan July 2024

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