Guess what? I know where Heaven is.

I found out where Heaven is a few months back thanks to my 5 year old niece Eva. Eva and Adam are twins and they should know.
This is how it came about. Last October 12 months our faithful 13 year old dog Gypsy died. Any dog lover out there will understand how awfully sad it is to lose such a beloved animal.
We buried Gypsy in the garden of our holiday cottage in Ring Co. Waterford beside Misty. (an earlier tragedy)
Adam and Eva were only 4 at the time and they loved her dearly. She in turn was very gentle with them. After she died their mother Karina told them that Gypsy had died and gone to Heaven.  They got over it as children do and when we got Bonnie a few months later they fell in love with her too.

The following summer Karina brought the children to Ring for an afternoon to visit us. While playing in the garden they came across the stone slab covering the burial spot. Himself was gardening at the time and they asked him why it was there. He told them that Gypsy was buried beneath it. He thought no more about it and carried on gardening but the pair were amazed. They ran into their mother with the great news that they knew where Heaven was. It was in Maurice and cha cha Mary's (they are half Polish) house in Ring.

That's all very fine though until grandma or someone else dies and all of a sudden I could become the grim reaper.

These photographs were taken in the garden in Ring on a cold February afternoon last week. They were taken with an old lens i got a present of. It's a Tamrom 28mm 2.5 Adaptall lens. It doesn't communicate with the camera so it only has manual focus which is fine if you have good eyesight. The lovely thing about the 2.5 aperture is that it throws the background out of focus and gives fab bokeh effect.

Crocus

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D, lens Tamron 28mm. exp 1/800sec, f2.5, ISO 100

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D, lens Tamron 28mm, exp 1,250sec, f2.5, ISO 200

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D, Lens Tamron 28mm, exp 1/160sec, f2.5, ISO 200

Camera settings - Canon 70D, lens Tamron 28mm, exp 1/1600, f2.5, ISO 200

Fig tree

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D, lens Tamron 28mm, Exp 1/1000 sec, f2.5, ISO 100

Honey Suckle

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D, lens Tamron 28mm, exp 1/500sec, f2.5, ISO 100

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D, lens Tamron 28mm, exp 1/1000, f2.5, ISO 100

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D, lens Tamron 28mm, exp 1/3200 sec, f2.5, ISO 100

Primrose

Camera settings - Camera Canon 70D lens Tamron 28mm, exp 1/800 sec, f2.5, ISO 200