Some administrativia: I finally updated the template on the blog from the Wordpress default - the first since I upgraded to WP 1.5. I've been experimenting with other themes, never finding one that really clicked, until I ran across Cutline. Nice clean layout, and I like the rotating header images (although they're not easy to generate). If you're a feedreader but still like to go old-school every so often, check it out. If you're not and you didn't notice the change, well, you've got other issues.
Last weekend I headed up to Cavehill via the Country Park (being lazy, I prefer to gain my altitude in the car rather than on my feet, thankyouverymuch). There's a nice 20-minute walk to McArt's Fort, well-graveled so not too mucky. This picture looks over Belfast to the Mountains of Mourne, 30-odd miles to the south. The high peak on the left is Slieve Donard, at 852m the tallest mountain in Northern Ireland.
This shot takes in several Belfast landmarks. In the foreground is what I think is Ballyaghagan Cairn:
"...there exists on the summit of Cave Hill a large stone cairn (about 16 metres in diameter and 1.15 meters high) which has almost completely been covered over by peat. The path from McArt’s Fort to McLaughlin’s quarry runs right over this cairn. The cairn is probably Neolithic (4500 BC to 2500 BC)."
Past that is McArt's Fort, and then in the distance is Scrabo Tower (about 10 miles to the west). On the far right just over the heather is Samson (Goliath?).
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