Rainbow Above The Tracks, Sandyford

When we asked the wean where he wanted to go for out Saturday outing his answer was predictable: "Train!" So we headed for Sandyford and parked near the line; actually the old Harcourt St. train line (dismantled, absurdly, in the 1960s), recently revitalised as the LUAS, part of Dublin's brand-new tram/streetcar network.

While waiting in the biting wind, I noticed the rainbow near that (derelict?) redbrick building which has often caught my eye, perched, as it is, on the edge of the Stillorgan reservoir.

We had a lovely mean in Wagamamas before meeting our friends E and P (with their own little girl) and taking a stroll in Stephen's Green, over to the playground. Too cold and miserable I had thought, but the weans enjoyed themselves tremendously, climbing the wooden (wibbly) bridges and walkways and generally skittering all over the gaff.

It was while we had been waiting for our friends to show up, just inside the main gate, that I noticed THIS CLOUDSCAPE.

Something about the light, trees and cloud, a sense of rapid shiftiness maybe, the clouds almost shaping a cloud-thought before being thinned, planed into the murk. It could be in the middle of the countryside but for the almost-buried spire of the Unitarian church nearby, where I have given readings a few times (not from the gospels: poetry).